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Protecting ecosystems is real development, and it has an amazing return on investment.
Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
A regional approach to food policy driven by business and public interests can better protect consumers and suppliers in both domestic and export markets, support scaling up of production, and facilitate market access and Greater Mekong Subregion product branding and marketing.
The GrEEEn Cities Initiative brings together policies, strategies, sector plans, regulations, financial incentives, technologies, governance institutions, civil society, and private sector interventions.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
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.
Singapore consolidated its various health and care systems to deliver integrated cost-efficient care for its aging population
Smart planning and spending improves public services and raises productivity, attracting more private capital and labor and sustaining growth.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.