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Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.
Secondary cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have an opportunity to avoid gridlocked growth patterns and to integrate sustainable energy and transport solutions.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
Jobs, education and skills development are needed to help elderly people lead a more stable life and contribute to the economy.
The SARS outbreak in 2003 provides insights on how we can mitigate the health and economic impact of COVID-19.
The Clean Air Scorecard Tool helped the most polluted cities to identify gaps in air quality management and introduce measures to rectify them.
The pandemic exposed gaps in food systems that call for integrating healthy diets with sustainable resource management and public health.
Climate-smart remodeling and operation of irrigation systems help improve water availability and upland farm productivity in two provinces of Cambodia.
In its makeover of a public housing estate, Singapore focused on not only improving the physical infrastructure but also on creating more spaces for community bonding.
Nepal took a whole-of-government approach in developing an effective and efficient system of expenditure reporting by local governments.