Search

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.

Strategic foresight tools can help policy makers adopt a more proactive approach to solving problems.  

How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.

Resilient health systems, early warning tools, and community safeguards can reduce chronic heat risks and protect vulnerable populations.

Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.

A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.

Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.

Health PPPs have helped bridge critical gaps in India and Uzbekistan, offering valuable lessons for designing PPP projects.

A study examines the feasibility of applying computer vision techniques to satellite data of the Philippines and Thailand to produce poverty maps.

Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.