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Disbursing against results, rather than upfront expenditures, helps improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government-owned sector programs and promote good practices.

Young people identify digitalization, strong participatory processes, and an inclusive labor market as priorities to improve livelihood opportunities amid COVID-19.

Growing imbalances across regions call for localized development strategies as the country moves toward economic diversification.

Targeted policies can help save the fragile enterprises that are at the core of digital transformation.

A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.

This piece highlights how sustainable tourism development can support the empowerment of women and minorities.  

Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development. 

In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.

Gaps in response funding immediately after disaster can now be addressed through a new form of insurance.

A project in Chaonan district in the People’s Republic China shows how to improve services in rural areas and small towns with scarce water resources.