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Performance-informed public spending links budgets to results, fostering trust, building resilience, and promoting inclusive growth in the Philippines.
Human, animal, plant, and ecological health challenges are all interconnected; solutions should be too.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
Policy reforms critical to building resilience include revamping teacher training and improving quality, relevance, and inclusion in the education sector.
Response, recovery, and adaptation measures ensure the safety of commuters and make transport systems resilient to COVID-19 and future disasters.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
Capturing early childhood data helps guide policy and investments to support every young child.
Mobile remittances offer a way to provide unbanked populations with affordable, secure, and accessible financial services.
Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
The Asian Development Bank examines prospects to ramp up efforts for greater utilization of demand-side energy efficiency in Asia and the Pacific.