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Update curricula to offer more green-focused programs, leverage R&D on new technologies, and commercialize green-tech start-ups.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Using resource-saving technology, new rice varieties, and intercropping of vegetables improve yields and income in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal.
The Industry Employment Network Database helps the Philippines shape more strategic policy and infrastructure plans.
Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.
In the People’s Republic of China, food delivery businesses are finding innovative ways of reducing, reusing, recycling, and replacing plastic packaging.
Building roads for socioeconomic development depends on an efficient O&M system that considers the difficult topology and fiscal issues.
The right textbook policy and practice can help raise the quality of education and address learning gaps.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
Moving systems into a cloud environment future-proofs public services.