Financial literacy, from Nepal Rastra Bank
The central bank publishes 9free books on managing money — 5 of them in Nepali. They are the only official financial education Nepal has, and almost nobody knows they exist.
Why this sits alongside our course rather than inside it.
Our course teaches the share market. These cover the ground underneath it — saving, budgeting, borrowing sensibly, and not being defrauded. If you are not yet sure you should be investing at all, start here rather than with us.
NRB’s own listing gives titles only, several in Nepali with no English equivalent, so you cannot tell a schools textbook from a policy framework without opening all nine. The descriptions below are ours, written to save you that. Every link goes to NRB.
- General readers, in Nepali
वित्तीय साक्षरता
Financial LiteracyNRB's main illustrated booklet on managing money — accounts, saving, credit and the basics of dealing with a bank. Aimed at readers with no financial background.
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- Policy readers
Financial Literacy Framework - 2022
NRB's national plan for improving financial literacy: what it measures, which groups it targets and how progress is assessed. Policy rather than instruction — useful if you want to know what the state thinks Nepalis do not understand about money.
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- School and college students
विद्यार्थीसँग नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक (परिमार्जित संस्करण, २०७७)
Nepal Rastra Bank with Students (2nd edition, 2077)Written for students: what a central bank does, how money and banking work, and why any of it matters to someone who has not started earning yet. The revised edition.
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- Policy readers
Financial Literacy Framework
The earlier framework, superseded by the 2022 edition but still published.
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- General readers
Nepal Rastra Bank Then, Now and Ahead April 2016
The central bank's own account of its history and role. Useful background for understanding why NRB directives move so much of NEPSE.
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- General readers, in Nepali
वित्तीय साक्षरता: सन्दर्भ पुस्तक
Financial Literacy: Reference BookThe most complete of the set: a reference covering saving, borrowing, budgeting, banking services and how to avoid financial fraud. If you read only one of these, read this one — it is the closest thing Nepal has to an official personal-finance textbook, and it is in Nepali.
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- School and college students
विद्यार्थीसँग नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक
Nepal Rastra Bank with Students (first edition)The original edition, kept online alongside the revision.
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- General readers, in English
NRB Then, Now and Ahead
The English edition of the same history.
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- Children and new readers
पैसाको बोट
The Money TreeA short illustrated story used to introduce saving and the idea that money does not appear from nowhere. Aimed at children, and the gentlest starting point here.
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NRB also runs a financial-literacy song programme
Alongside the books, NRB publishes songs on themes such as saving, using credit sensibly, women’s access to credit, remittance income and digital payments. They are not listed individually here — they are creative works we have no licence to reproduce, and a lyric sheet is not reference material.
When you are ready for the market
These books stop where the share market begins. Our free course picks up there — what a share is, the accounts you need, what a trade costs, and how to judge a company.