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Brazil’s Bolsa Floresta encourages beneficiary communities to engage in productive economic activities that do not increase deforestation.
This piece highlights how trade integration and investments in connectivity can help Timor-Leste to achieve its goal of sustainable and inclusive development.
Youth can help address noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by supporting behavior change efforts and initiatives targeted toward encouraging other youth to make healthier choices.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
Innovative lending practices can convert energy efficiency into high rates of return for companies.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
Enhancing public asset management can help governments overcome the fiscal challenges brought by COVID-19.
Analyzing project life cycle data and making it accessible can transform how development projects are designed and delivered.
On Indonesia’s remote Sumba Island, poorer households can pay for solar home systems with goods or services instead of cash.
Real-time data is critical for reopening borders, managing destinations, and for the industry to build back better from the crisis.