Practical guides on managing money in Nepal, written by the people building Aafno Hisab.
If your salary stopped tomorrow, how long would you last? Most people have never worked it out. The number takes two minutes to find, and it changes how you think about everything else.
The rule says save 20%. On a Rs. 45,000 salary in Kathmandu that is Rs. 9,000 a month, and most people cannot get near it. Here is what the number should actually be, at three different salaries.