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This policy brief looks at three scenarios for reviving tourism: promoting domestic tourism, bilateral travel bubbles, and subregional travel bubbles.

Public finance, blue bonds, and marine protection tools can reduce risk and mobilize private capital.

Improvements in pipeline infrastructure and better customer metering led to significant nonrevenue water reduction and an increase in revenue.

Enhancing housing affordability and sustainability requires capacity development, affordability-based demand assessment, financing, and design improvements.

A study found that the proposed exchange should focus on electricity and emissions before adding agricultural products to the mix.

Strengthening governance, building institutional capacity, and weeding out corruption are essential for effective privatization.

Patent and public procurement systems can help promote productivity-led growth by improving technology diffusion and supporting innovative solutions.

Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.

Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.

Analysis using a multidimensional index suggests that regional integration boosts growth and reduces poverty, beyond the usual effect of trade openness.