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Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
An evaluation of possible project impacts helps preserve culturally and environmentally important sites and protect nearby communities.
A study looks at combined investments in research and development, infrastructure, technology, and policy reforms to achieve food security goals.
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.
In the Republic of Korea, the finance sector needs environmental, social, and governance evaluation criteria amid growing shareholder stewardship.
New digital technologies are a game changer for financial inclusion in Asia, opening up access to financial services for all sectors of society, and in the process helping dispel myths about financial inclusion.
A study of four countries shows vulnerable businesses need cash flow support primarily, including low or no-interest loans.
Enhancing public asset management can help governments overcome the fiscal challenges brought by COVID-19.
Solomon Islands has overcome significant challenges to private sector development by implementing policies that create jobs and livelihoods through private enterprise.
The pandemic is an opportunity for the country to push for longer-term structural reforms.