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Among the investments supported by the Afghanistan Business Innovation Fund were businesses that targeted women as workers, producers, and consumers.
In the People’s Republic of China, reducing the risk of illness-induced poverty entails raising the poor’s financial protection and health system reforms.
Enhancing transport and trade linkages between and across the countries in the Bay of Bengal region requires a strategic master plan.
Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.
An integrated approach to sustainable and inclusive development helps an oasis city in the People’s Republic of China overcome environmental challenges.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Better coordination and accountability are helping to improve road and water systems in Armenia.
An after-school program for teens that develops technical competence in 21st-century skills is being replicated across the country and beyond.
Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.