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In the digital economy, central bankers and regulators face the challenge of ensuring consumer safety and financial stability while promoting innovation in the financial sector.

A properly functioning market chain and flow of agricultural products are vital to ensuring food and nutrition security amid COVID-19.

Investing in energy transition may enable the textile sector to access markets that require lower-carbon supply chains.

Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development. 

Southeast Asia is home to some of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world. It is imperative that ASEAN benefits from COP24. 

Social protection spending and coverage are increasing, yet some countries continue to favor the nonpoor over the poor, and men over women.

In India, auctions were found to be better than regulator-designed tariffs in determining the procurement price for solar-generated electricity.

The effect of COVID-19 school closures on students and their future calls for digital systems that ensure learning continues even in a disaster.

Promoting the employment of seniors and improving pension schemes can reduce the economic impact of population aging.  

Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.