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Gender-targeted strategies are needed to improve health care for women under India’s universal medical insurance program.
Disbursing against results, rather than upfront expenditures, helps improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government-owned sector programs and promote good practices.
Empowering women to take greater control over their resources would give them the tools for lifelong change.
Strengthening leadership pathways, workplace reforms, and training can help address barriers to women’s rise to senior health roles.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
The widespread loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity is much more than a conservation issue; countless lives and livelihoods depend on them.
Nepal has made it easier to move goods across borders by updating customs software, constructing a new inland clearance depot, and rehabilitating border access roads.
Creating a mortgage refinancing company is critical to building a stable residential housing market.
In the Philippines, an education nonprofit is improving program monitoring by removing data silos to increase the reliability and sharing of data.
Innovative lending practices can convert energy efficiency into high rates of return for companies.