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Building regional regulatory capabilities in Asia and the Pacific requires strong oversight and sustained commitment to strengthening vaccine regulatory systems.
Timor-Leste can improve its business environment by focusing on investment promotion efforts, strengthening investment facilitation, and using a more problem-driven approach.
Increase production and consumption of renewables to improve energy security and to also lower emissions per capita and carbon intensity.
The Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project offers lessons in implementing large infrastructure projects involving multiple development partners and affecting many people and communities.
Investing in energy transition may enable the textile sector to access markets that require lower-carbon supply chains.
Precision farming, AI-powered pest detection, and drone-based imaging empower farmers to optimize resources and improve yields.
While many inclusive businesses support the concept of gender-inclusivity, much more can be done to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is promoted in the workplace.
Maternal health gains require engaging private providers in quality frameworks that embed accountability, equity, and consistent standards.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
Governments work together to develop viable projects and financing to protect and preserve the wetlands along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.