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Viet Nam's Vinh Yen City is a model for urban planners and policymakers seeking a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable city.
Strengthen regional initiatives by harnessing advances in technology, promoting cross-border technology transfer, and harmonizing policies and standards.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.
East Asia needs to shift toward a model of economic growth focused on low carbon emissions and more efficient use of resources.
An electricity trading project between Indonesia and Malaysia is lowering power costs, raising revenue and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Harmonization of transportation and customs policies will boost the corridor’s potential as an alternative trade route between Asia and Europe.
Through machine learning, data from nontraditional sources, such as telcos, are analyzed for credit risk assessment of the unbanked.
The experience of the People’s Republic of China shows that beyond economic growth, an adaptive and cooperative approach can help reduce poverty even at hard to reach places.
In the highly competitive Korean market, policy makers need to adjust performance indicators and incentives to encourage banks to increase technology financing.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.