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Tapping the potential of MOOCs in training statisticians on tablet-based data collection yields promising results.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
Bhutan has achieved high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction by taking a holistic approach to development that includes the personal happiness of its citizens
In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
It takes just three steps—avoid, shift, and improve—for Asia's cities to solve their growing traffic problems and get them moving again.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
Successful adaptation to older population age structures requires a policy focus on measuring and improving the social value of medical care.
Large-scale vaccination requires a comprehensive strategy, infrastructure, human resources, monitoring systems, and a receptive public.
Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.