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Reducing informality requires helping workers and firms move into more productive activities through skills, technology, and firm upgrading.
Understanding the logic flow of project assessment helps improve environmental categorization, assessment, and management of projects.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.
The World Food Programme uses cash transfers not just to feed the hungry but also to give people purchasing power to buy locally, helping to boost economies.
The water-food-energy nexus approach can help Central Asia manage shared water resources and promote regional cooperation.
Tax expenditure estimation is an important analytical tool in supporting tax policy formulation.
Strengthening leadership pathways, workplace reforms, and training can help address barriers to women’s rise to senior health roles.
In Nepal’s mountain eco-regions, the needs of women and vulnerable groups were considered in designing a project that protects water resources from climate risks.
Lessons from the People’s Republic of China and the Asia-Pacific region suggest managing river basins as single ecological units.
Proper design of policy incentives and the right mix of recycling, incineration, and other waste management methods through integrated planning can help protect public health and the environment in a sustainable way.