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Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.
Wholesale and retail trade, textiles, construction, electronics, and food and beverage show high circularity potential.
In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.
As the country reopens, a newly developed macroeconomic model suggests paths forward from the past 3 years of economic disruption.
Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.
A preliminary study in Sri Lanka provides important insights into mechanistic-empirical pavement thickness and overlay design for roadway networks.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
A study examines the feasibility of applying computer vision techniques to satellite data of the Philippines and Thailand to produce poverty maps.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
Assess preparedness for BEPS minimum standards and the global minimum tax proposal, prioritize tax certainty, and develop capacities to address international tax avoidance and treaty abuse.