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Enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of small businesses requires sustained reforms that include digitalization and innovation.
Explore equity, quasi-equity, and other non-debt assistance and structural reforms to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and other shocks.
Business support infrastructure, access to finance, and information technologies empowered small businesses and generated opportunities for women and youth in Maldives.
Involving forest users in managing and conserving resources while strengthening value chains help curb illegal logging and forest fires.
Labor, health, and safety measures ensure that the rights and welfare of both local and migrant workers are protected.
In the Republic of Korea, a mobile and low-cost motorcycle inspection system was developed for commercialization and export.
The Maldives is adopting advanced low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and diesel imports with the help of the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism.
A study of four countries shows vulnerable businesses need cash flow support primarily, including low or no-interest loans.
Financial resource mobilization by the Malaria Trust Fund has helped eradicate malaria and build strong foundations for health systems in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
In Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao PDR, good O&M contract management and community support will ensure the sustainability of a new sanitary landfill facility.