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Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.

A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.

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.

Better coordination and accountability are helping to improve road and water systems in Armenia.

Valuation approaches include cost-based, revealed preference, stated preference, and benefit transfer.

Within a week of installing environmental nudges, handwashing with soap among students rose to 61% from 15%.

Addressing weaknesses in procurement, contract and asset management, and financial management ensures better project management and implementation.

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.

This policy brief looks at three scenarios for reviving tourism: promoting domestic tourism, bilateral travel bubbles, and subregional travel bubbles.