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Solutions include lowering statutory maximum lending rates, expanding policy financing and mid-rate loans, increasing loans and loan guarantees.
Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
Design a framework that minimizes extra-contractual renegotiations and upholds prudence and transparency.
Progressive urban governance and planning reforms are required for cities to deliver the economic and social benefits of urbanization.
Taking a risk-management approach to large-scale projects involves investing in project preparation and attending to stakeholders’ concerns early, such as land and resettlement issues.
A package of economic, social, legal, and institutional measures helps provide equal opportunity to minority and low-caste women in Nepal.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.
Generative AI has the potential to improve community resilience with careful yet optimistic approach in promoting health interventions.
Shifting to a low-carbon economy entails drastic reductions in fossil fuel use and emissions as well as structural adjustments.
The GrEEEn Cities Initiative brings together policies, strategies, sector plans, regulations, financial incentives, technologies, governance institutions, civil society, and private sector interventions.