Explainer

An urban housing project in India is using carefully sequenced interventions to help climate-vulnerable households relocate to safe areas and sustainably rebuild their lives.

Policy Brief

The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.

Explainer

Carbon taxes and emission trading systems can help countries mobilize fiscal resources while enabling green economic recovery from COVID-19.  

Explainer

A pilot project in Viet Nam will test a heat exchange technology that reuses industrial wastewater for heating and cooling production processes.

Policy Brief

Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.

Insight

Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.

Case Study

A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.

Policy Brief

Enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of small businesses requires sustained reforms that include digitalization and innovation.

Case Study

Climate-smart remodeling and operation of irrigation systems help improve water availability and upland farm productivity in two provinces of Cambodia.

Case Study

In Nepal, a project looked at how biochar can improve soil health and crop yields and reduce the importation of carbon-intensive farm inputs.