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Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.
Malaysia has made outstanding progress in reducing extreme monetary poverty.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
Change management, effective public–private partnership, and regulation are crucial to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation programs.
In Kazakhstan, infection among workers at a road upgrading project was avoided because good occupational safety and health measures were in place.
Gender bonds can scale up women’s access to finance and promote gender equality at the same time.
Using batteries to store energy can help improve the efficiency and flexibility of power systems that are integrating new and renewable energy sources into the grid.
Analysis using a multidimensional index suggests that regional integration boosts growth and reduces poverty, beyond the usual effect of trade openness.
Korean engineers develop a structural monitoring and measurement system that can manage multiple cable bridges in Southeast Asia.