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Response, recovery, and adaptation measures ensure the safety of commuters and make transport systems resilient to COVID-19 and future disasters.

Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.

This piece offers practical advice as to why working with civil society is important in the Pacific and how greater engagement between CSOs, government, and the Asian Development Bank can be achieved. 

Technology can help reboot the tourism sector by enabling contactless and digital transactions and mapping COVID-19 infections for disease control.

To avoid large economic losses from climate change, Southeast Asia can lead the way in global climate action by shifting towards a low-carbon economy.

Safer infrastructure and robust post-crash care can save lives, prevent long-term disabilities, and support recovery.

New technologies, including APIs and SDMX, are revolutionizing data collection and sharing, reducing the data gap in Asia and the Pacific.

Data products such as the Key Indicators series are crucial to evidence-based policymaking.

Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.

Enable small and medium-sized enterprises to become part of global value chains to revive economies and promote inclusive growth after COVID-19.