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Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.
A pilot project in the Philippines will demonstrate how irrigation canals can be used in producing clean and reliable energy off the grid.
Statisticians turn to digital solutions and nontraditional methods for faster data collection, processing, and dissemination to inform crisis response.
In the digital economy, central bankers and regulators face the challenge of ensuring consumer safety and financial stability while promoting innovation in the financial sector.
A study shows targeting support to tourism, agro-processing, garments, electronics, and digital trade can help ensure strong recovery from COVID-19.
Combining materials processed in a single treatment plant offers cost savings and private sector opportunities in sanitation services.
One way to reduce poverty in developing countries is to make it cheaper and easier for migrant workers to send money home.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
The Maldives is adopting advanced low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and diesel imports with the help of the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.