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New digital technologies are a game changer for financial inclusion in Asia, opening up access to financial services for all sectors of society, and in the process helping dispel myths about financial inclusion.

Strategic foresight tools can help policy makers adopt a more proactive approach to solving problems.  

How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.

Harmonizing the definition and measurement of circularity drives better policies and stronger cooperation.

Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.

A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.

A study examines the feasibility of applying computer vision techniques to satellite data of the Philippines and Thailand to produce poverty maps.

Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.

Looking at the next 10 years, global risk experts place environmental risks among not only the most likely, but also the most impactful risks.

Government can partner with telcos and educators and use multiple channels of existing infrastructure to reach as many children as possible.