authors
Madan Kandel, Rabindra Neupane and Jagat Timilsina

abstract
This article is about Micro Enterprise Development (MED) model which was implemented in 1998 in Nepal under the Ministry of Industry to promote micro-enterprises. The MED model aims to alleviate poverty through income and employment generation by promoting micro-enterprises in Nepal. The article also analyses and presents data on created micro-enterprise under the MED model as well as benefits realized by the micro-entrepreneurs from the different components of the MED model.