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A combination of asphalt and concrete layers that incorporate plastic waste could make durable, sustainable, and cost-effective rural roads.

Asia's rapid urbanization requires the balanced and holistic development of second-tier cities and towns to release pressure from congested megacities.

Strategies include enhancing water resource management, strengthening biodiversity conservation, and promoting sustainable ecotourism.

In the People’s Republic of China, a study shows pension income in rural areas improves economic independence and health of older people.

Bhutan has achieved high rates of economic growth and poverty reduction by taking a holistic approach to development that includes the personal happiness of its citizens

Lessons from Greater Mekong Subregion countries can help efforts to develop premium markets for Kazakhstan’s halal lamb meat and Mongolia’s camel wool.

Bringing quality preventive and diagnostic services closer to communities can reduce health inequalities.

This report provides a framework for implementing commercially viable distributed electrification solutions and shares lessons from a pilot in the Philippines.

Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.

A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.