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Raise the efficiency of public procurement and land and labor markets to boost productivity, and address growth constraints on agriculture and tourism.
Timor-Leste can improve its business environment by focusing on investment promotion efforts, strengthening investment facilitation, and using a more problem-driven approach.
This piece highlights how trade integration and investments in connectivity can help Timor-Leste to achieve its goal of sustainable and inclusive development.
Rapid and low-risk prototyping of solutions to problems promotes innovative and cost-effective approaches to urban development.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Involving forest users in managing and conserving resources while strengthening value chains help curb illegal logging and forest fires.
In the People’s Republic of China, food delivery businesses are finding innovative ways of reducing, reusing, recycling, and replacing plastic packaging.
Here’s what worked and what didn’t for Asian Development Bank’s first regional technical assistance on innovation.
Digital finance offers the potential to reach underserved groups, but it is vital to first understand the needs of this segment.