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To ensure water security, Singapore has diversified water supply over the last five decades and actively promoted water conservation.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Singapore consolidated its various health and care systems to deliver integrated cost-efficient care for its aging population
Smart planning and spending improves public services and raises productivity, attracting more private capital and labor and sustaining growth.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.
Rather than leveling an existing forest to build a new business park, JTC Corporation adopted an ecologically sensitive approach that retained the natural elements, thereby creating an environment where both businesses and biodiversity could thrive.
In Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao PDR, good O&M contract management and community support will ensure the sustainability of a new sanitary landfill facility.
A study from the Republic of Korea looks at measures to foster synergy between old and new transport services.