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Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.
A smart, distributed district energy system uses multiple clean energy sources and real-time demand response technology to cut emissions and save energy.
Enhancing housing affordability and sustainability requires capacity development, affordability-based demand assessment, financing, and design improvements.
Crises like a pandemic underscore the importance of alternative sources of high-quality and timely data in developing effective measures.
Transport emissions are the shared outcome of global production and consumption—demanding accountability across sectors and regions.
The planning and implementation of the state-owned enterprise's labor rationalization program offer lessons in managing complex and challenging issues.
India should create city-level economic visions, integrate master planning with economic goals, and ensure that a business-friendly regulatory environment extends to local levels.
Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.