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A financing scheme using Internet of Things gives tricycle drivers access to credit without collateral and promotes discipline in loan repayments.
Solutions include lowering statutory maximum lending rates, expanding policy financing and mid-rate loans, increasing loans and loan guarantees.
This is a case study on how to raise awareness and build community ownership among diverse stakeholders for a project to save Nepal’s Bagmati River.
A partnership between the government education department and a non-government organization in the Philippines gives a blueprint for improving access to basic education.
A well-crafted action plan has helped women in Bangladesh who want to start small and medium-sized enterprises have a more equal playing field with men.
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.
Targeted policies can help save the fragile enterprises that are at the core of digital transformation.
Increased use of geospatial modelling in integrated energy planning highlights gaps in data.
Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
As Sri Lanka’s population ages, many older people in remote hill villages are being left without adequate support, services, or income security.