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Bangladesh trained 1.5 million people by linking directly to the real-world needs of employers.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
A policy action plan for Myanmar provides a step-by-step guide on how to stimulate private sector development.
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.
A Korean research project finds the complex partial box girder method as an economically feasible alternative to steel box girders.
Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
Introduce interventions that address childcare issues and employment segregation.
Growing imbalances across regions call for localized development strategies as the country moves toward economic diversification.
The effect of COVID-19 school closures on students and their future calls for digital systems that ensure learning continues even in a disaster.
Statisticians turn to digital solutions and nontraditional methods for faster data collection, processing, and dissemination to inform crisis response.