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Digital technology is key to increasing financial inclusion, but it comes with new challenges and risks.
The National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035 emphasizes nature-based solutions, a region-specific approach, and climate-resilient investments.
Many transport projects include specific measures to prevent HIV/AIDS among migrant construction workers.
Inclusive business models can effectively reduce inequality, helping vulnerable low-income earners get out of poverty.
Korean engineers develop a structural monitoring and measurement system that can manage multiple cable bridges in Southeast Asia.
Data integration and analytics, cloud-based staff management, and e-learning can serve as building blocks for modernizing the civil service system.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
A pilot project in the Philippines gives livelihood support and coaching to poor households, which helped them cope better with the COVID-19 crisis.
Large-scale and youth-targeted government policies can mitigate the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on youth employment in Asia.