Using Energy Abundance to Address Income Inequality Azerbaijan has leveraged its vast energy resources to elevate the country to upper middle-income status.
How to Bring a Soviet-style Economy and Government into the Modern Era Armenia’s leaders put in place prudent fiscal and monetary policies that resulted in strong economic growth.
How to Improve Social Assistance Delivery through Good Governance To build a well-coordinated government assistance program, focus on communication and outreach, targeting, service delivery, and evaluation.
Three Steps to Help Women Have More Say in Local Government Putting resources toward specialized training, mentoring and confidence building is a successful formula for giving greater voice to women in the countryside.
Bringing Private Sector Power to the Province How local governments in the Philippines are successfully forging multi-million dollar public-private partnership deals.
Internal Auditing by Southeast Asian Governments: Differences and Similarities The services and role of the internal audit function are consistently defined across the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations but significant variation exists in regard to professional practices and the management of people and performance.
New Thinking for Fragile States Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.
How to Jumpstart the Cities that Drive Asian Economic Growth Governments need the right mix of policies and projects to reap the benefits of urban growth.
Assessing the Impacts of Excess Capacity An analysis of excess capacity in the People's Republic of China looks at the factors that contributed to overinvestment in manufacturing.
Overcoming Fiscal Management Challenges in Resource-Rich Countries To increase sustainability and inclusiveness of growth, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste need to look at ways to improve the quality and efficiency of public spending.