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Strengthen laws, improve labeling, create incentives, regulate refrigerants, and promote large-scale adoption.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.
Strong governance is essential to achieving climate goals, mobilizing resources, and accelerating climate-resilient development.
Savvy project management accelerates construction of a 75 km railway in war-torn Afghanistan.
Strategic foresight tools can help policy makers adopt a more proactive approach to solving problems.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
New technologies, including APIs and SDMX, are revolutionizing data collection and sharing, reducing the data gap in Asia and the Pacific.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
Leverage data integration, administrative data, and other targeted methods for data collection and analysis.
The widespread adoption of water-saving technologies, such as alternate wetting and drying, is crucial to ensure the long-term sustainability of Pakistan's rice sector.