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Pacific island countries need to include climate action in national development plans to lessen the economic costs of climate change.
Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
Privatization and corporatization can reduce costs, raise productivity, and improve social welfare.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
Reforming the calculation of lending rates could improve delinquent loan collection.
By allowing the shared control of data, distributed ledgers can enable innovations that support financial inclusion.
Built in 256 BC, the Dujiangyan system harnesses the power of nature to irrigate farmlands and prevent floods in the People’s Republic of China.
In the People’s Republic of China, food delivery businesses are finding innovative ways of reducing, reusing, recycling, and replacing plastic packaging.
Mainstream gender inclusion and climate resilience into infrastructure development to improve quality of life and meet sustainability goals.