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This working paper recommends structuring electric vehicle policies around three principles: focus, optimization, and incentives.
There is a blueprint to overcoming the barriers that limit women's participation in the formal economy.
In Medellin city, Colombia, cable cars have helped enhance mobility for marginalized neighborhoods, reduce pollution, and improve quality of life.
Japanese firms share best practices and technology in live wire maintenance with Electricity of Viet Nam to improve electric power distribution.
Advances in technology are making more jobs obsolete, which means workers need skills to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace.
Success lies in industry links, technology, skills development, new modes of education delivery, and school-to-work transition programs.
How local governments in the Philippines are successfully forging multi-million dollar public-private partnership deals.
The solutions in Asia and the Pacific: explore groundwater abstraction options, build efficient water infrastructure, develop better data, and improve water management, particularly for agriculture.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
In India, auctions were found to be better than regulator-designed tariffs in determining the procurement price for solar-generated electricity.