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Bioplastics industry development hinges on strategic direction and vision, environmental sustainability, and better waste management.
Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
Governments must rethink and refine tax policy and administration measures to not only address development challenges but also to build back better.
FDI-recipient countries show positive growth in productivity but their technology gains depend on absorption capacity.
Countries can meet goals for climate change and the planned global plastics treaty through investments, technologies, and financing with co-benefits.
A market-based approach for reducing air pollution offers countries in the region great potential for flexibility and innovation.
A hackathon in Nepal nurtured innovative tech solutions to improve sanitation practices in the country.
EPR frameworks, plastic credit schemes, and high-level waste management technologies can support the Global Plastics Treaty implementation.
Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.
Harmonizing standards and navigating medical device regulations to boost innovations can facilitate access beyond national boundaries.