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A financing scheme using Internet of Things gives tricycle drivers access to credit without collateral and promotes discipline in loan repayments.
This policy brief looks at three scenarios for reviving tourism: promoting domestic tourism, bilateral travel bubbles, and subregional travel bubbles.
Involves economic analysis, capturing and enhancing project value, institutional collaboration, and financing through standardized processes and targeted funds.
High upfront costs and lack of incentives impede fuel efficiency initiatives in road freight in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Long-term policy framework, regulatory alignment, and smart infrastructure may unlock the region’s digital trade potential.
Increasing investments in natural capital requires a proper accounting of its economic value for informed policy and decision-making.
Nepal has made it easier to move goods across borders by updating customs software, constructing a new inland clearance depot, and rehabilitating border access roads.
East Asia needs to shift toward a model of economic growth focused on low carbon emissions and more efficient use of resources.
Installing wire-rope barriers to separate opposing lanes of traffic can reduce fatal road accidents by 95%.
Policy makers need tools and approaches that help them understand and ensure the economic, social, and environmental symbiosis for sustainable development in Mongolia.