Kathmandu, Jan. 10 -- Nepal has set its sights on becoming a middle-income country and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, multiple reports have pointed out that the current level of investment in infrastructure is far from enough to meet these targets.

Speaking at the Kantipur Economic Summit 2020 on Thursday, experts cited multiple factors-including government inefficiency, policies, processes and ways of setting and executing priority projects-that Nepal needed to correct to meet the infrastructural needs and attract large-scale private and foreign investments.

According to Swarnim Wagle, former vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission, the country is more focused on small-scale projects and lacks a...