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To preserve lives and revive the economy, countries need to plan ahead to secure sufficient supplies of the future COVID-19 vaccine.
In Mongolia, ADB supports a new way of banking without collateral to improve credit access for women and small businesses.
Effective project design and community engagement helped the Peoples' Republic of China overcome the challenges in building the Dali-Lijiang Railway.
Myanmar is improving its secondary education system through reforms of curriculum, teaching, and student assessment.
In STEM education, it is useful to have integrated and multidisciplinary approaches that promote real-life learning and creative and innovative thinking.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
Involving forest users in managing and conserving resources while strengthening value chains help curb illegal logging and forest fires.
A two-stage holistic and evidence-based framework provides urban planners a structured and practical guide for making cities healthy and age-inclusive.
Population aging threatens fiscal sustainability unless government takes steps to reduce elderly poverty and manage public spending on pensions and healthcare.
Singapore has built a community space dedicated to integrating persons with disabilities in society by providing them with training and employment opportunities, while ensuring that it is an inclusive space that promotes interaction among people of all abilities.