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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
The 2024 ProFIT Survey highlights the need to simplify business registration, expand SME financing, and align skills training with market demand.
Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.
The Lao PDR is using gender, disability, and inclusion data to design better, more targeted public services.
Gender data on education, health, and other sectors can guide policy interventions that aim to help reduce the gender gap.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
LOCA demonstrates how frontier markets can promote green urban mobility through local innovation and sustainable transport solutions.
Catalytic risk capital, community empowerment, and climate-smart practices in poultry farming can unlock industry growth.
Regenerative agroforestry can promote decarbonization and biodiversity, while improving coffee farmers’ livelihoods in the Lao PDR.
In urban areas in the Lao PDR, decentralized solutions prove to be a low-maintenance and environment-friendly way to ensure clean water and sanitation.