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One way to reduce poverty in developing countries is to make it cheaper and easier for migrant workers to send money home.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.
Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
A project promoting south–south knowledge transfer adapted ICT-based Chinese information dissemination models to the Cambodian context.
A financing scheme using Internet of Things gives tricycle drivers access to credit without collateral and promotes discipline in loan repayments.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
CAREC countries adopt diversification strategies as they shift to a market-oriented agriculture.
Seoul conducted stabilization work to cover the garbage, and restored Nanjido into a nature sanctuary now enjoyed by millions of visitors.