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Myanmar’s second largest city tackles the challenges of improving and privatizing waste management.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.
To mainstream PPPs in the water sector, implement a holistic governance framework, foster an enabling environment, and incorporate transaction design.
Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
A financing scheme using Internet of Things gives tricycle drivers access to credit without collateral and promotes discipline in loan repayments.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
Gain insights from the experience of the Republic of Korea in expressway networks development—from the period of economic restructuring to high economic growth.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government provides market analysis, such as consumption patterns and purchasing power, to help small entrepreneurs succeed.