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New digital technologies are a game changer for financial inclusion in Asia, opening up access to financial services for all sectors of society, and in the process helping dispel myths about financial inclusion.

Strategic foresight tools can help policy makers adopt a more proactive approach to solving problems.  

How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.

Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.

Long-term policy framework, regulatory alignment, and smart infrastructure may unlock the region’s digital trade potential.

A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.

Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.

An after-school program for teens that develops technical competence in 21st-century skills is being replicated across the country and beyond.

Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.

In Nepal’s mountain eco-regions, the needs of women and vulnerable groups were considered in designing a project that protects water resources from climate risks.