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Financial support and credit rehabilitation can help financially vulnerable borrowers to repay their debts amid economic impacts of COVID-19.
Disbursing against results, rather than upfront expenditures, helps improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government-owned sector programs and promote good practices.
Policy makers need tools and approaches that help them understand and ensure the economic, social, and environmental symbiosis for sustainable development in Mongolia.
Seoul established a quasi-public bus system, restructured routes, created median lanes, built transfer centers, and integrated its fare system to improve service.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
In easing the debt burden of economically vulnerable groups, measures should be taken to prevent creditor resistance and moral hazard among borrowers.
This working paper recommends structuring electric vehicle policies around three principles: focus, optimization, and incentives.
Asian countries are taking a leading role in the development of cryptocurrency.
Real-time data is critical for reopening borders, managing destinations, and for the industry to build back better from the crisis.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.