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The 2024 ProFIT Survey highlights the need to simplify business registration, expand SME financing, and align skills training with market demand.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Shifting to circular approaches can deliver economic gains while helping address food security and promote sustainable production and consumption.
Addressing data gaps, investing in human resources, and using technologies provide policymakers with insights to make informed climate-related decisions.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
Feasibility assessments, demand forecasting, and direct public investments in manufacturing facilities support sustainable vaccine manufacturing.
Green Revolution 2.0 requires cultivating a new generation of innovators, scientists, policymakers, and agro-entrepreneurs.
Government can partner with telcos and educators and use multiple channels of existing infrastructure to reach as many children as possible.
Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.