Why Nepal's governments change so often, and whether it matters as much as it seems

Coalitions form, fracture and re-form, and the premiership has changed hands with a frequency few democracies match. [1]

Ministers change; secretaries, who run the ministries, mostly do not. Budgets are presented on the constitutional date whoever holds the finance portfolio.

The cost of churn

Where instability bites is in anything that needs sustained attention: large projects, foreign negotiations, reform of the civil service itself. Reporting on stalled national-priority projects reads much the same year after year. [2]