According to the 2005 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) regional poverty profile, published on Friday, Nepal's Capital city, Kathmandu has a poverty rate of only 3.3 per cent.The report said that one of the reasons for Kathmandu has low level of poverty is that "Kathmandu is a seat of the government, a rich area supported by tax payers' money, fertile land, industry, trade, tourism and hub of services sector."
With less than 5 percent of the total population, it receives a large slice of the national budget, the report adds.
