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Timor-Leste can improve its business environment by focusing on investment promotion efforts, strengthening investment facilitation, and using a more problem-driven approach.
In the Philippines, partnership has delivered solutions the country needs to reach its development goals.
The People's Republic of China is experimenting with incentive-based mechanisms to resolve challenges in managing its trans-provincial watersheds.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
Managing household debt is becoming increasingly difficult for low-income households.
Bangladesh trained 1.5 million people by linking directly to the real-world needs of employers.
Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.
Microfinance anchored on civil society organizations is a promising model in banking the unbanked.
Singapore's hawker centers are considered to be useful social tools that not only brings people from all walks of life together through affordable food but also provides a source of livelihood for those with limited financial means.
Curitiba, Brazil pioneered the use of bus rapid transit and paved the way for other countries in Latin America and around the world.