Strategies to Restart the Tourism Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic This policy brief looks at three scenarios for reviving tourism: promoting domestic tourism, bilateral travel bubbles, and subregional travel bubbles.
High-Value Crops Help Central Asia Revitalize Agriculture Sector CAREC countries adopt diversification strategies as they shift to a market-oriented agriculture.
Helping Tourism Enterprises in the Lao PDR Recover from COVID-19 Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.
Designing a Low-Carbon and Resilient COVID-19 Recovery Recovery interventions should provide not only economic stimulus but also address climate and disaster risk to ensure that gains are sustained.
Ensuring Timely Access to the Future COVID-19 Vaccine To preserve lives and revive the economy, countries need to plan ahead to secure sufficient supplies of the future COVID-19 vaccine.
Lowering the Rate of NEETs in Sri Lanka Policymakers must examine and address the root causes of why certain young people are not in employment, education, or training.
Using Machine Learning on Satellite Images to Map Poverty A study examines the feasibility of applying computer vision techniques to satellite data of the Philippines and Thailand to produce poverty maps.
How SMEs Can Bounce Back from the COVID-19 Crisis Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
Lessons We Can Learn from New Zealand's COVID-19 Strategy Early and strong action mitigates health impact, while recovery measures focus on the long term.
Policy Lessons from a Pandemic: The Korean Experience The Republic of Korea is taking a multi-faceted approach to protecting public health and cushioning the impact of COVID-19 on the economy.