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The 2024 ProFIT Survey highlights the need to simplify business registration, expand SME financing, and align skills training with market demand.
Valuing GEP and implementing ecological compensation mechanism can enhance the sustainable finance mechanism of desert ecosystem restoration.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
Building roads for socioeconomic development depends on an efficient O&M system that considers the difficult topology and fiscal issues.
Increased road crashes linked to motorcycles call for improving policies on their use for public transport and logistics.
In Nepal’s mountain eco-regions, the needs of women and vulnerable groups were considered in designing a project that protects water resources from climate risks.
PPPs can advance road projects, strengthen infrastructure, and support Sustainable Development Goals, but require effective fiscal and debt management.
Market-responsive training, recognized competency certifications, and timely learning modules can provide the skills needed for green jobs in the energy sector.
Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.
Designing an effective assistance package involves collaboration and coordination to address immediate to long-term needs.