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Digital finance offers the potential to reach underserved groups, but it is vital to first understand the needs of this segment.
Basic infrastructure needs to be put in place before blockchain fintech can solve persistent problems that hold back growth and job creation.
A sound governance framework, supported by qualitative and quantitative value for money analysis, maximizes benefits from infrastructure investments.
Asia’s cities need innovative solutions to manage increasing volumes of waste.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Asia needs to mobilize private capital to bankroll its transition to an environmentally sustainable future.
Online learning initiatives fill the gap left by school and business closures and show the way forward after COVID-19.
This report provides a framework for implementing commercially viable distributed electrification solutions and shares lessons from a pilot in the Philippines.
Tax expenditure estimation is an important analytical tool in supporting tax policy formulation.
The lessons learned by the Asian Development Bank, which was one of the last organizations to leave Afghanistan[1] in 1980 and one of the first to return in 2002.