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Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.
Instead of recapturing the tourism of the pre-pandemic era, countries should strive to create a new kind of tourism that is more closely aligned to the SDGs.
In India, auctions were found to be better than regulator-designed tariffs in determining the procurement price for solar-generated electricity.
Tailored development approaches are the key to improving livelihoods and resilience in small islands states and countries affected by fragility or conflict.
Crises like a pandemic underscore the importance of alternative sources of high-quality and timely data in developing effective measures.
Banking on a growing digital economy, Viet Nam needs to improve IT connectivity and skills, e-payments, logistics, cybersecurity, and consumer trust.
Data integration and analytics, cloud-based staff management, and e-learning can serve as building blocks for modernizing the civil service system.
Understand and address the needs of vulnerable young workers and entrepreneurs as part of COVID-19 measures.
Spatial analysis can aid planning and policy design in enhancing the economic impact of regional transport networks in Central Asia.