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Embracing technology for financial service delivery benefits both women-led enterprises and financial institutions.
An analysis of excess capacity in the People's Republic of China looks at the factors that contributed to overinvestment in manufacturing.
Strengthening leadership pathways, workplace reforms, and training can help address barriers to women’s rise to senior health roles.
Without proper valuation, natural assets’ scarcity remains economically invisible, leading to their exploitation for short-term gains.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
Promoting the employment of seniors and improving pension schemes can reduce the economic impact of population aging.
Computer-assisted surveys make data collection possible despite COVID-19 travel and social restrictions.
Timor-Leste can improve its business environment by focusing on investment promotion efforts, strengthening investment facilitation, and using a more problem-driven approach.
A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.
In the Republic of Korea, modular homes assembled like LEGO units are being developed as a response to the growing need for small to mid-size housing.