This is the reality Nepal keeps forgetting. Nepal GDP is just $30 billion.
Last year, overseas Nepali workers sent home more than $8.1bn to their families. Remittances make up more than 25 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), according to World Bank data.
In all, about 7.4 percent of Nepal's 28 million people work abroad, more than twice the global average, according to the World Bank.
But with the coronavirus curtailing employment opportunities, many of those migrant workers are being forced to return home. Neighbouring India has the largest proportion of overseas Nepalis, with an
estimated two million people