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Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
This study analyzes fresh produce for contaminants and explores ways to enhance farm management, market infrastructure, and food safety management.
Blockchain is transforming financial transactions—with far-reaching implications for the unbanked.
Secondary cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have an opportunity to avoid gridlocked growth patterns and to integrate sustainable energy and transport solutions.
Scale up local-level adaptation by integrating climate adaptation considerations into decentralized governance processes and resources.
Maneuvering through the web of stakeholder interests, the Republic of Korea institutionalized a service-oriented bus transportation system in Seoul and its satellite cities in surrounding provinces.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows the importance of real-time learning in adapting interventions to an uncertain and rapidly changing situation.
Idling of motor vehicles during wintertime generates greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, but engine block heaters can lessen the negative impact on the environment.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Governments must rethink and refine tax policy and administration measures to not only address development challenges but also to build back better.