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Design a framework that minimizes extra-contractual renegotiations and upholds prudence and transparency.
Replacing an old barrage with advanced technology vastly improved water and flood control, connectivity, and access to essential social services.
Increasing disaster risks in developing countries call for strategic planning and investments in resilient and low-carbon infrastructure.
This piece offers practical advice as to why working with civil society is important in the Pacific and how greater engagement between CSOs, government, and the Asian Development Bank can be achieved.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
The immunization campaign for children in the Republic of Korea after the Korean War took years of strategic planning and implementation that included health education and legislation.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
Banking on a growing digital economy, Viet Nam needs to improve IT connectivity and skills, e-payments, logistics, cybersecurity, and consumer trust.
A study of four possible futures arising from COVID-19 and climate change impacts offers policy makers guideposts for rebuilding tourism.
Blockchain has the potential to help emerging markets broaden the benefits of rapid growth.