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A study of four Southeast Asian markets examines how digital financial solutions can play a key role in closing gaps in financial inclusion.

In the digital economy, central bankers and regulators face the challenge of ensuring consumer safety and financial stability while promoting innovation in the financial sector.

Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.

Harmonizing standards and navigating medical device regulations to boost innovations can facilitate access beyond national boundaries.

Safer infrastructure and robust post-crash care can save lives, prevent long-term disabilities, and support recovery.

A Korean research project finds the complex partial box girder method as an economically feasible alternative to steel box girders.

Smart planning and spending improves public services and raises productivity, attracting more private capital and labor and sustaining growth.

Less developed countries can take advantage of increased talent flows in the region in expanding their “brain network.”

The pandemic exposed gaps in food systems that call for integrating healthy diets with sustainable resource management and public health.

Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.