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A project in Chaonan district in the People’s Republic China shows how to improve services in rural areas and small towns with scarce water resources.
In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
Bhutan has achieved high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction by taking a holistic approach to development that includes the personal happiness of its citizens
Data products such as the Key Indicators series are crucial to evidence-based policymaking.
Nutrition-specific interventions should target the first 1,000 days, promote behavioral change, and focus on the most vulnerable.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.
Well-designed and participatory eco-compensation schemes with proper technical assistance can help small farmers in some of the poorest and most ecologically sensitive areas in the People’s Republic of China.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
It takes just three steps—avoid, shift, and improve—for Asia's cities to solve their growing traffic problems and get them moving again.