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Pilot projects in the region demonstrate how digital technologies can increase access to finance even in remote areas.
Smart planning and spending improves public services and raises productivity, attracting more private capital and labor and sustaining growth.
Shifting to a low-carbon economy entails drastic reductions in fossil fuel use and emissions as well as structural adjustments.
Proper design of policy incentives and the right mix of recycling, incineration, and other waste management methods through integrated planning can help protect public health and the environment in a sustainable way.
The pandemic is an opportunity for the country to push for longer-term structural reforms.
An urban housing project in India is using carefully sequenced interventions to help climate-vulnerable households relocate to safe areas and sustainably rebuild their lives.
Protecting ecosystems is real development, and it has an amazing return on investment.
Contractual arrangements for PPP infrastructure procurement must be improved.
Built in 256 BC, the Dujiangyan system harnesses the power of nature to irrigate farmlands and prevent floods in the People’s Republic of China.
To prevent the emergence of a new pandemic, monitoring of pathogens must be supported by socioeconomic solutions that protect biodiversity.