Search Subscribe
Sign up for our free newsletter and get more of Development Asia delivered to your inbox.
Open configuration options
In the People’s Republic of China, biogas plants supply electricity to livestock farms using their wastes and produce organic fertilizer for eco-farming.
Embracing technology for financial service delivery benefits both women-led enterprises and financial institutions.
A new climate-proofed system introduced surface water as the main source of water to conserve diminishing groundwater and reduced saltwater intrusion.
Putting in place policies, systems, and infrastructure for e-government helped improve efficiency, transparency, and people’s access and participation.
Human, animal, plant, and ecological health challenges are all interconnected; solutions should be too.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.
The pandemic exposed gaps in food systems that call for integrating healthy diets with sustainable resource management and public health.
Gender-targeted strategies are needed to improve health care for women under India’s universal medical insurance program.