Based on day 9 information -> About 1 quarter of Nepal's population spends more than 75% of their income on food... when Nepalese are prevented from earning a day's wage -- due to business closure, inhability to travel to work or inability to access arkets - this most often means missing a day's meal....
Today I explored the types of businesses in which Nepalese like to visit and show their buying habits... this is to show how much business is lost when a strike occurs and helps you imagine how much money is lost by weeklong or even monthlong strikes:
14 percent of traders in the Terai had to close their business because of bandhs. A day's bandh is estimated to cost the economy around NPR 630 million (which represents close to one day's GDP) in indirect loss alone.
In 2007 the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries estimated a 20 day long Terai bandh in 2007 to have caused economic losses of around NPR 28.74 billion.
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