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Investing in mental health strengthens human capital, reduces inequality, and drives economic and social gains across sectors.
The Lao PDR is using gender, disability, and inclusion data to design better, more targeted public services.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
Parents and caregivers can safeguard children online by promoting digital literacy, open communication, and engaged parenting.
Modernized facilities and customs reform cut the passage time by over 50% at the busy border crossing in Uzbekistan.
Each country must follow its path in leveraging fiscal resources for sustainable development.
On Indonesia’s remote Sumba Island, poorer households can pay for solar home systems with goods or services instead of cash.
Baselining, Ten Seed Technique, Seasonal Calendar, Community Mapping, Transect Walk, and Visioning are all participatory tools used for assessment.
Internet-connected “smart” devices can help transform fast-developing cities in Asia and the Pacific into safe and sustainable urban centers.
Lessons from the People’s Republic of China and the Asia-Pacific region suggest managing river basins as single ecological units.