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Myanmar is improving its secondary education system through reforms of curriculum, teaching, and student assessment.
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.
While remittances from migrant workers continue to increase, they can only fuel economic growth if they enter the formal financial system and be channeled into productive investments.
A well-crafted action plan has helped women in Bangladesh who want to start small and medium-sized enterprises have a more equal playing field with men.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
In Samoa, eDNA survey techniques were used to assess the potential effects of a proposed dam on freshwater ecosystems.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Microfinance anchored on civil society organizations is a promising model in banking the unbanked.
Significant reforms are needed to improve indirect investment vehicles in real estate in the Republic of Korea.
A structured development approach is helping create a sustainable pool of highly qualified eldercare professionals in the People’s Republic of China.