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In Mongolia, ADB supports a new way of banking without collateral to improve credit access for women and small businesses.
There is a need for globally coordinated standards and principles that allow room for countries to adapt their policies.
Effective project design and community engagement helped the Peoples' Republic of China overcome the challenges in building the Dali-Lijiang Railway.
Myanmar is improving its secondary education system through reforms of curriculum, teaching, and student assessment.
In STEM education, it is useful to have integrated and multidisciplinary approaches that promote real-life learning and creative and innovative thinking.
Involving forest users in managing and conserving resources while strengthening value chains help curb illegal logging and forest fires.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
A two-stage holistic and evidence-based framework provides urban planners a structured and practical guide for making cities healthy and age-inclusive.
Population aging threatens fiscal sustainability unless government takes steps to reduce elderly poverty and manage public spending on pensions and healthcare.
Tajikistan has overcome the challenges of being a mountainous, landlocked country to make development gains across society.