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In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
Transforming tax administration with business intelligence enhances transparency, efficiency, and progress toward the sustainable development goals.
Data products such as the Key Indicators series are crucial to evidence-based policymaking.
Bhutan has achieved high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction by taking a holistic approach to development that includes the personal happiness of its citizens
Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
Nutrition-specific interventions should target the first 1,000 days, promote behavioral change, and focus on the most vulnerable.
Strengthening the database of the poor, marginalized, and vulnerable households can improve delivery of relief packages.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.