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Business support infrastructure, access to finance, and information technologies empowered small businesses and generated opportunities for women and youth in Maldives.
Promoting responsible lending practices on online peer-to-peer platforms builds market trust and deters the need for further regulation.
Circular practices, such as extending a product’s useful life or recycling waste into products, can yield environmental as well as economic benefits.
Turkmenistan is adopting international food safety standards to safeguard public health and to boost the trade of agro-food products.
Work has just started in defining and addressing the loss and damage from climate change that cannot be prevented by mitigation and adaptation efforts.
The Clean Air Scorecard Tool helped the most polluted cities to identify gaps in air quality management and introduce measures to rectify them.
Public-private partnerships can help make clean technologies for turning waste into energy accessible to cities.
Replacing dispersed coal burning with centralized district heating can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
Maneuvering through the web of stakeholder interests, the Republic of Korea institutionalized a service-oriented bus transportation system in Seoul and its satellite cities in surrounding provinces.
The Korean government has employed comprehensive policy measures to manage household debt risks.