Search Subscribe
Sign up for our free newsletter and get more of Development Asia delivered to your inbox.
UAVs enable high-resolution data collection, but their effective integration demands overcoming operational, regulatory, and capacity-related hurdles.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
India should create city-level economic visions, integrate master planning with economic goals, and ensure that a business-friendly regulatory environment extends to local levels.
Science-based solutions help rural communities manage water resources sustainably and build resilience against climate change impacts.
New technologies, including APIs and SDMX, are revolutionizing data collection and sharing, reducing the data gap in Asia and the Pacific.
Identify the factors contributing to mid-term account terminations and enhance relevant policies.
In the Solomon Islands, the approach combined short-term actions with low potential for future regret with long-term options for future climate conditions.
Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
Increasing investments in natural capital requires a proper accounting of its economic value for informed policy and decision-making.