Ways to Design Tax Systems to Enhance Social Protection Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
Strengthening Mongolia's Food Security Post-COVID-19 Build storage facilities, protect local workers, and develop systems to monitor risks.
Protecting Construction Workers' Health in a Pandemic In Kazakhstan, infection among workers at a road upgrading project was avoided because good occupational safety and health measures were in place.
Graduation Approach: A Unique Value Addition to Resettlement Projects An urban housing project in India is using carefully sequenced interventions to help climate-vulnerable households relocate to safe areas and sustainably rebuild their lives.
Maximizing the Female Education Subsidy Program in Bangladesh The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.
Bridging the Widening Demand-Supply Gap for Long-Term Care Services Enhancing long-term care systems entails engaging stakeholders, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and establishing legal and regulatory frameworks.
Reality Check: Are Justice Systems Just to Women and Girls? Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
Harnessing Administrative Data for Evidence-Based Labor Policy Making Crises like a pandemic underscore the importance of alternative sources of high-quality and timely data in developing effective measures.
Looking after Workers’ Well-Being in an Infrastructure Project Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.
Designing Proactive Policies to Combat Child Malnutrition in Sri Lanka Nutrition-specific interventions should target the first 1,000 days, promote behavioral change, and focus on the most vulnerable.