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A package of economic, social, legal, and institutional measures helps provide equal opportunity to minority and low-caste women in Nepal.
One of the strategies being used to transition to digital banking is to expand the customer base beyond people who use traditional banks.
The solutions in Asia and the Pacific: explore groundwater abstraction options, build efficient water infrastructure, develop better data, and improve water management, particularly for agriculture.
In the People's Republic of China, a project is saving enough energy to match the equivalent of building a 107-megawatt power plant.
Sri Lanka’s Aswesuma program can better support the vulnerable by refining targeting, improving data, and aligning aid with poverty reduction.
A cost-effective and scalable approach may improve real-time pollution assessment for low- and middle-income countries.
A startup offers a closed-loop solution for the large volumes of plastic waste generated by the construction and buildings sector.
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.
A digital ledger of transactions can help authenticate and ensure the trustworthiness of data.
There is a blueprint to overcoming the barriers that limit women's participation in the formal economy.