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Disbursing against results, rather than upfront expenditures, helps improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government-owned sector programs and promote good practices.
A results-driven project is closing the skills gap through sector-wide reforms focused on improving technical and vocational education and training.
Empowering women to take greater control over their resources would give them the tools for lifelong change.
In Mongolia, ADB supports a new way of banking without collateral to improve credit access for women and small businesses.
Seoul’s Owl Service has reduced the use of passenger cars by more than 2 million trips per year.
In Seoul, 90% of landfill-bound wastes were instead used to produce energy enough to heat 518,000 households.
In Mongolia, project procurement-related reviews helped safeguard a health project from corruption, fraud, and other integrity risks.
The Asian Development Bank examines prospects to ramp up efforts for greater utilization of demand-side energy efficiency in Asia and the Pacific.
Mobile remittances offer a way to provide unbanked populations with affordable, secure, and accessible financial services.
Efforts are needed to get third parties engaged in the emissions market.