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Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
To obtain development gains through digital investments, invest in their analog complements: policy and infrastructure.
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.
Korean engineers develop a structural monitoring and measurement system that can manage multiple cable bridges in Southeast Asia.
In the Greater Mekong Subregion, environmental assessment for livestock value chains projects helps avoid, minimize, and mitigate environmental, health, and safety risks.
Poverty maps derived from satellite images helped target the most vulnerable households in pandemic-affected areas in the Philippines.
UAVs enable high-resolution data collection, but their effective integration demands overcoming operational, regulatory, and capacity-related hurdles.
Wholesale and retail trade, textiles, construction, electronics, and food and beverage show high circularity potential.
E-commerce and Xinjiang’s free trade zone expand options for SMEs in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic.
A technical assistance project helped identify and prepare projects and reforms with regional impact.