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Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
A two-stage holistic and evidence-based framework provides urban planners a structured and practical guide for making cities healthy and age-inclusive.
Lessons from Indonesia show digital transformation scales only when industry and digital governance align as one system.
Applying international standards for financial auditing strengthens country systems and enhances accountability for externally financed projects.
Transforming tax administration with business intelligence enhances transparency, efficiency, and progress toward the sustainable development goals.
Define large businesses, implement comprehensive management of compliance risk, increase public accountability, and improve perceptions of fairness.
Demographic changes, such as population aging in East Asia, will affect productivity and competitiveness and shape how innovation is created.
Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
Rapid and low-risk prototyping of solutions to problems promotes innovative and cost-effective approaches to urban development.
Baselining, Ten Seed Technique, Seasonal Calendar, Community Mapping, Transect Walk, and Visioning are all participatory tools used for assessment.