Case Study

In Kazakhstan, infection among workers at a road upgrading project was avoided because good occupational safety and health measures were in place.  

Insight

Growing imbalances across regions call for localized development strategies as the country moves toward economic diversification.

Explainer

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.

Policy Brief

The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.

Explainer

Carbon taxes and emission trading systems can help countries mobilize fiscal resources while enabling green economic recovery from COVID-19.  

Explainer

A pilot project in Viet Nam will test a heat exchange technology that reuses industrial wastewater for heating and cooling production processes.

Policy Brief

Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.

Insight

Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.

Case Study

A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.