Harvard Kennedy School Growth Lab

After $329 million in US aid was cancelled, one former USAID official's advisory firm has backed 400 Nepali founders in a year

The United States has funded Nepal since 1951. Fortune's account of the aftermath sets about 30,000 direct job losses against one advisory firm's first 400 founders and hydropower built to roughly 5,000 of an estimated 100,000 megawatts.