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Production and export of high-quality mung beans can improve farmers’ incomes and nutrition.
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The People’s Republic of China’s efforts to integrate natural capital accounting into its national policy development process may encourage mainstreaming of the practice in other parts of the world.
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Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
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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.
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Brazil’s Bolsa Floresta encourages beneficiary communities to engage in productive economic activities that do not increase deforestation.
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A project in Bangladesh used behavior change communication as a large-scale health care intervention to help women and poor households access health care.
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In the Philippines, partnership has delivered solutions the country needs to reach its development goals.
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty -
One way to reduce poverty in developing countries is to make it cheaper and easier for migrant workers to send money home.
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A package of economic, social, legal, and institutional measures helps provide equal opportunity to minority and low-caste women in Nepal.
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A study of four Southeast Asian markets examines how digital financial solutions can play a key role in closing gaps in financial inclusion.
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In Thailand, subsidies, housing grants, educational programs and the leveraging of economies of scale are being used to benefit poor urban dwellers.
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Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.
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The Southville 7 community in the Philippines shows how different sectors of society worked successfully together to turn a basic housing project into a livable community for 5,000 resettled families.
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Advances in information and communications technology offer economic opportunities for rural populations and can play a significant role in poverty reduction.
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Latin America's long experience with conditional cash transfers offers lessons for implementing these innovative human development programs in Asia and the Pacific.
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty