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The People’s Republic of China is moving to more technologically sophisticated and more value-creating segments of global value chains.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
Sorsogon City in the Philippines is investigating options for upgrading its open dumpsites to a properly managed landfill.
Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
A sound governance framework, supported by qualitative and quantitative value for money analysis, maximizes benefits from infrastructure investments.
Design a framework that minimizes extra-contractual renegotiations and upholds prudence and transparency.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
A data-driven “smart” system can help water utilities to reduce losses from unaccounted-for-water more efficiently and improve service delivery.
Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.
Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.