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The benefits of open finance are closely linked to how well its risks are understood and managed.
Regulatory and financial innovations can ensure that microfinance benefits those who need them most.
Strengthening leadership pathways, workplace reforms, and training can help address barriers to women’s rise to senior health roles.
Cross-border trade, marketing, and supply chains are reshaping diets across Asia, limiting the effectiveness of national policies.
Public finance, blue bonds, and marine protection tools can reduce risk and mobilize private capital.
Support pastoralist-led governance with policies, finance, rights, restoration, and monitoring to sustain mobility, ecosystems, and grassland resilience.
Advanced fertilizers improve soil fertility, reduce nutrient losses and runoff to waterways related to fertilizer use, and enhance nutrient use efficiency.
Adhering to rules on quantitative restrictions and pursuing multilateral talks on export tariffs may help contain adverse economic impacts.
Lessons from Indonesia show digital transformation scales only when industry and digital governance align as one system.
Improved integration of disaster risk data, social registries, and delivery systems can strengthen crisis response.