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Tapping the potential of MOOCs in training statisticians on tablet-based data collection yields promising results.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
A wide range of new solutions is able to avoid, reduce, collect, recycle, and clean up plastic waste.
Knowledge of a startup’s technology, human resources, marketability, and growth potential lowers the risks of venture capital investments.
Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.
In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
Bhutan has achieved high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction by taking a holistic approach to development that includes the personal happiness of its citizens
Data products such as the Key Indicators series are crucial to evidence-based policymaking.
Nutrition-specific interventions should target the first 1,000 days, promote behavioral change, and focus on the most vulnerable.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.