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Regional financial cooperation has strengthened Asian economies and made them more resilient, but attention toward this important work has waned in recent years.
Gender bonds can scale up women’s access to finance and promote gender equality at the same time.
Strengthen regional initiatives by harnessing advances in technology, promoting cross-border technology transfer, and harmonizing policies and standards.
Instead of recapturing the tourism of the pre-pandemic era, countries should strive to create a new kind of tourism that is more closely aligned to the SDGs.
The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.
In a world of disruptive changes, Asian countries need to rethink education and skills training to build a resilient and agile workforce.
Digital tools may be used to overcome challenges in planning, logistics management, vaccination administration, and immunization monitoring.
Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.
In Sri Lanka, the rural water sector has benefited from the active role of women in management and operations.
Promote remote processing of cargo clearances and modernize border facilities to improve intraregional trade in BIMSTEC.