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A phased investment plan strengthens infrastructure, integrates digital tools, and builds technical capacity.
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.
The widespread loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity is much more than a conservation issue; countless lives and livelihoods depend on them.
Harmonizing standards and navigating medical device regulations to boost innovations can facilitate access beyond national boundaries.
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.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Less developed countries can take advantage of increased talent flows in the region in expanding their “brain network.”
The pandemic exposed gaps in food systems that call for integrating healthy diets with sustainable resource management and public health.
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.
Youth involvement can be improved in the areas of green jobs and green skills, climate advocacy, and Just Transition.