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One of the strategies being used to transition to digital banking is to expand the customer base beyond people who use traditional banks.
Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.
There is a need for globally coordinated standards and principles that allow room for countries to adapt their policies.
In climate-vulnerable communities in Fiji and Mongolia, capacity-building activities support women’s participation in the green economy.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
Accelerating universal access to water and sanitation is critical to preventing and managing future health crises.
Patent and public procurement systems can help promote productivity-led growth by improving technology diffusion and supporting innovative solutions.
Colombia’s capital Bogota has made it safe and easy to travel by bicycle to work or school by creating a 376-kilometer grid of bike paths, called CicloRutas.
Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.
Nepal took a whole-of-government approach in developing an effective and efficient system of expenditure reporting by local governments.