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Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.
Gradual tariff adjustment combined with a heating allowance for vulnerable consumers can support the transition to sustainable heating.
Define large businesses, implement comprehensive management of compliance risk, increase public accountability, and improve perceptions of fairness.
New ADB data underlines the importance of managing public debt effectively as the region emerges from the pandemic amid global uncertainty.
An after-school program for teens that develops technical competence in 21st-century skills is being replicated across the country and beyond.
Invest in economic sectors that are more likely to generate more productive jobs.
Patent and public procurement systems can help promote productivity-led growth by improving technology diffusion and supporting innovative solutions.
Less developed countries can take advantage of increased talent flows in the region in expanding their “brain network.”
Women were actively involved in developing the vision, plans and implementation of the local climate change projects.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.