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Spatial analysis can aid planning and policy design in enhancing the economic impact of regional transport networks in Central Asia.
Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
Governments must rethink and refine tax policy and administration measures to not only address development challenges but also to build back better.
In the digital economy, central bankers and regulators face the challenge of ensuring consumer safety and financial stability while promoting innovation in the financial sector.
Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
A web-based platform using satellite data and climate scenarios helps urban planners build resilient and livable cities.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
A “polluters pay” policy helps Seoul reduce household waste going to the landfill by 90% and waste generated by the city by 40%.
Change management, effective public–private partnership, and regulation are crucial to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation programs.