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A new diagnostic tool can strengthen public institutions, where services are delivered and where corruption and inefficiency often emerge.
Improved integration of disaster risk data, social registries, and delivery systems can strengthen crisis response.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Tax expenditure estimation is an important analytical tool in supporting tax policy formulation.
A pilot project in the Philippines gives livelihood support and coaching to poor households, which helped them cope better with the COVID-19 crisis.
An analysis of geographic conditions shows bioengineering may be useful in some road and flood control projects to support climate mitigation.
The global minimum tax is reshaping investment incentives, requiring countries to redesign policies to protect revenue and support sustainable investment.
The planning and implementation of the state-owned enterprise's labor rationalization program offer lessons in managing complex and challenging issues.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.
To mainstream PPPs in the water sector, implement a holistic governance framework, foster an enabling environment, and incorporate transaction design.