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Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
Achieving financial inclusion through technology-based solutions presents both opportunities and challenges in Sri Lanka’s financial sector.
Managing urban sprawl takes more than development controls; it requires planned growth, coordinated infrastructure, and adaptable policies.
E-payment gateways and streamlined customs clearance processes can promote regional collaboration and economic growth in digital trade.
Local government can enhance the developmental impact of remittances, increase migrants’ capacities, and support their communities.
A new book identifies ways to stimulate Asian economic growth through a shift from traditional industrial policies to indigenous innovation.
Improve resource allocation, public sector efficiency, and asset maintenance.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
Technology can help reboot the tourism sector by enabling contactless and digital transactions and mapping COVID-19 infections for disease control.
In the Republic of Korea, the finance sector needs environmental, social, and governance evaluation criteria amid growing shareholder stewardship.