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Creating an enabling environment for financial technology and innovation and building public trust are key to encouraging more people to bank.
Internet-connected “smart” devices can help transform fast-developing cities in Asia and the Pacific into safe and sustainable urban centers.
A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.
Targeted policies can help save the fragile enterprises that are at the core of digital transformation.
Regulators should focus on ensuring full corporate disclosure and transparency to protect stakeholders.
In the highly competitive Korean market, policy makers need to adjust performance indicators and incentives to encourage banks to increase technology financing.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Involving residents from rural communities is key to improve access to markets and commercial areas.
Built in 256 BC, the Dujiangyan system harnesses the power of nature to irrigate farmlands and prevent floods in the People’s Republic of China.
Nature-based solutions can prevent the next pandemic.