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Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
Basic infrastructure needs to be put in place before blockchain fintech can solve persistent problems that hold back growth and job creation.
Countries can meet goals for climate change and the planned global plastics treaty through investments, technologies, and financing with co-benefits.
Advances in technology are making more jobs obsolete, which means workers need skills to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace.
Transforming tax administration with business intelligence enhances transparency, efficiency, and progress toward the sustainable development goals.
In Thailand, subsidies, housing grants, educational programs and the leveraging of economies of scale are being used to benefit poor urban dwellers.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
India’s Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project offers practical operational lessons and best practices for forging more livable cities.
The Republic of Korea’s capital city faced and resolved a series of obstacles to constructing a modern public building on a historic site.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.