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To avoid large economic losses from climate change, Southeast Asia can lead the way in global climate action by shifting towards a low-carbon economy.
Exploring climate impacts, socioeconomic factors, and governance can lead to innovative strategies for the deltas’ protection and empowerment of their communities.
A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
Bioplastics industry development hinges on strategic direction and vision, environmental sustainability, and better waste management.
Among the investments supported by the Afghanistan Business Innovation Fund were businesses that targeted women as workers, producers, and consumers.
While remittances from migrant workers continue to increase, they can only fuel economic growth if they enter the formal financial system and be channeled into productive investments.
As the country reopens, a newly developed macroeconomic model suggests paths forward from the past 3 years of economic disruption.
Why does meaningful youth engagement matter in promoting young women’s economic empowerment, and how do we promote this in our work?
The Asian Development Bank examines prospects to ramp up efforts for greater utilization of demand-side energy efficiency in Asia and the Pacific.