The primary means to alleviate poverty is employment. People, get income from employment which will promote their standard of living and the poverty is slowly reduced. But without employment, there will be no earnings. In order to reduce poverty, long-term employment opportunities should be created by enhancing thecompetitive capability of poor and marginalized people. In this way, poverty can be reduced.

Following can be the strategies adopted to promote employment:

• Increase production-oriented employment opportunities in order to reduce unemployment.
• Create diverse industries- both manufacturing and service oriented industries through the involvement of private sectors, multinational companies, donors, etc. to provide adequate employment opportunities to the people.
• Create employment by launching various programmes in mountain, hills and Terai based on small loans, focused to generate income of suppressed, women, madhesis, disabled, etc.
• Provide soft loans and make employment more productive by providing skills, training to the youths, poor and targeted groups.
• Self-created employment such as handicrafts, items, hotels, cottage industries, etc. should be encouraged.

Due to lack of sufficient job opportunity in an internal labour market, about 800,000 youths have gone overseas till Asar 2064. People earning money in a foreign land can get a job easily and improve their skill.Besides, the family of the people having foreign employment can afford the good quality of life. So, people are attracted to foreign employment.

Nepali people are employed in following places in foreign countries:

The importance of foreign employment in Nepal can be stated as below:

Each of our development regions which are linked almost south to the north is more or less resourceful. According to the creation of development regions, if honest and fair implementation is made along with the utilization of resource, there will be no lack of employment opportunities for the people because tourism, agriculture, and other things have great prospects for us. The number of people can involve in various money generating activities in many sectors.

We do different types of work. We people are from different background. Some are educated whereas some are uneducated. This has made the great difference in judging the people. Whether we do job or business, that is an essential need for our survival. But treating people in terms of their works is certainly felt meaningless because more or less we need the service of each other. For example, a doctor may be considered superior but to him, a simple farmer is equally necessary. The doctor has to depend upon the food crops produced by be fed with the foods/crops produced by the farmer, a king is highly honorable than a farmer, but he has to be fed with the food/crops produced by the farmer. So, what we should know that there should be the 'dignity of labor' then only all works become valuable and people become respectable. We are dependent on a different nature of workers, but we hate and treat inhumanity which is beyond the spirit of humanity.

Unemployment is like a black cloud for the economic improvement of the country. It brings diminishment to the economy. This does definitely bring a hazardous problem. Various determinants factors are there for the occurrence of this problem. They are-

1. The government hasn't made favorable policy addressing the unemployment.
2. The service-oriented companies or industries haven't been much established.
3. The service-providing companies or industries often suffer from political and other obstacles.
4. Many people lack skillful training to be well employed.