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Companies and governments are devising strategies for how to manage the personal information of users of online services.
Solutions include lowering statutory maximum lending rates, expanding policy financing and mid-rate loans, increasing loans and loan guarantees.
More attention needs to be given to borrowers' wider financial condition to ensure customized loan management.
Personal credit information could be an important determining factor in insurance underwriting and the calculation of premiums.
Reforming the calculation of lending rates could improve delinquent loan collection.
Soil stabilizers can cut the costs, and improve the quality, of rural roads in Southeast Asia.
A study of four Southeast Asian markets examines how digital financial solutions can play a key role in closing gaps in financial inclusion.
One of the strategies being used to transition to digital banking is to expand the customer base beyond people who use traditional banks.
Latin America's long experience with conditional cash transfers offers lessons for implementing these innovative human development programs in Asia and the Pacific.
Seoul dismantled an old highway and revived a stream, the city, and local spirit, through the creation of the Seoul Greenway.