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Government support, good governance, and resolute leadership helped Nepal Electricity Authority achieve profitability.
Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
The experience of a water utility in Manila shows that dividing a large network into smaller zones improves leak detection and distribution efficiency.
E-payment gateways and streamlined customs clearance processes can promote regional collaboration and economic growth in digital trade.
Banking on a growing digital economy, Viet Nam needs to improve IT connectivity and skills, e-payments, logistics, cybersecurity, and consumer trust.
Inclusive business models can effectively reduce inequality, helping vulnerable low-income earners get out of poverty.
Pacific island countries need to include climate action in national development plans to lessen the economic costs of climate change.
UAVs enable high-resolution data collection, but their effective integration demands overcoming operational, regulatory, and capacity-related hurdles.
In Samoa, eDNA survey techniques were used to assess the potential effects of a proposed dam on freshwater ecosystems.
Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.