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In the digital economy, central bankers and regulators face the challenge of ensuring consumer safety and financial stability while promoting innovation in the financial sector.

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. 

Public finance, blue bonds, and marine protection tools can reduce risk and mobilize private capital.

Five critical reforms can bolster global health systems against pandemics, climate change, and emerging infectious disease threats.

Youth-focused programs and digital tools are creating accessible, effective pathways to mental well-being.

Green Revolution 2.0 requires cultivating a new generation of innovators, scientists, policymakers, and agro-entrepreneurs.

Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.

In the People’s Republic of China, reducing the risk of illness-induced poverty entails raising the poor’s financial protection and health system reforms.

Increase production and consumption of renewables to improve energy security and to also lower emissions per capita and carbon intensity.

Sea level rise will hike coastal flood losses at least 12-fold by 2100. The benefits of adaptation outweigh the costs, providing returns at least 10 times the investments.