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Update curricula to offer more green-focused programs, leverage R&D on new technologies, and commercialize green-tech start-ups.
The widespread adoption of water-saving technologies, such as alternate wetting and drying, is crucial to ensure the long-term sustainability of Pakistan's rice sector.
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.
Digital finance promises to be an effective means of reaching the unbanked, but its use must be accompanied by consumer information and education.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
Domestic violence is a human rights issue, requiring collective stakeholder interventions to provide a continuum of care for all affected.
An index that measures the degree of regional integration in Central Asia will help identify policy gaps and measures to enhance economic cooperation.
Size the BESS correctly, list the performance requirements in the tender document, and develop operational guidelines and pricing policy.
Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.
Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.