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In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.
A national program promotes forest conservation and protection while creating sustainable livelihoods for communities.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
A study of Singapore’s Little India helps to develop a practical approach to preserving and enhancing the livability of historic ethnic districts.
Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.
East Asia needs to shift toward a model of economic growth focused on low carbon emissions and more efficient use of resources.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
Digital change poses transformative opportunities, as well as risks, in capturing and interpreting data in support of sustainable development goals.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.