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Banks need to update their business models as competition from fintechs disrupts the supply chain finance market.

Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.

Solutions include lowering statutory maximum lending rates, expanding policy financing and mid-rate loans, increasing loans and loan guarantees.

Increasing disaster risks in developing countries call for strategic planning and investments in resilient and low-carbon infrastructure.

Seoul dismantled an old highway and revived a stream, the city, and local spirit, through the creation of the Seoul Greenway.

Financial support and credit rehabilitation can help financially vulnerable borrowers to repay their debts amid economic impacts of COVID-19.  

Cities in Asia and the Pacific need to scale up investments in resilient infrastructure amid increasing climate and disaster risks.

There is a need to ensure that senior high school students are able to make optimal choices by providing them access to various senior high school tracks.

Students need not just career guidance but also practical information on the enrollment process and available financial assistance programs.

The region needs integrated and holistic policies to push an ambitious agenda that requires capital, innovation, and new business models and mindsets.