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This piece highlights how trade integration and investments in connectivity can help Timor-Leste to achieve its goal of sustainable and inclusive development.

What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.

Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.

The bilateral agreement offers deeper tariff liberalization than the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, yet both need better rules of origin.

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.

Regional cooperation and improved data practices can help address the challenge of plastic pollution more effectively.

A livelihood project sets up night markets in border towns of the Greater Mekong Subregion and provides microfinance support to vendors.

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

Digital connectivity is a public good that can lead to new and sustainable growth areas and facilitate cross-border trade and remittances.

Mobile remittances offer a way to provide unbanked populations with affordable, secure, and accessible financial services.