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The Asian Development Bank shares its experience in reducing its carbon footprint by implementing a rooftop solar photovoltaic system at its headquarters in metropolitan Manila.
Leveling the playing field for women opens opportunities for countries to increase development gains.
The effect of COVID-19 school closures on students and their future calls for digital systems that ensure learning continues even in a disaster.
Gender-targeted strategies are needed to improve health care for women under India’s universal medical insurance program.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
New digital technologies are a game changer for financial inclusion in Asia, opening up access to financial services for all sectors of society, and in the process helping dispel myths about financial inclusion.
Size the BESS correctly, list the performance requirements in the tender document, and develop operational guidelines and pricing policy.
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 Nepal, a project looked at how biochar can improve soil health and crop yields and reduce the importation of carbon-intensive farm inputs.
To preserve lives and revive the economy, countries need to plan ahead to secure sufficient supplies of the future COVID-19 vaccine.