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Mobilizing private capital for the water sector requires a strong regulatory environment, sound risk management, and financial sustainability.
In Australia, the private sector is working with regulators to maximize the benefits of blockchain technology and minimize its risks.
A regional approach to food policy driven by business and public interests can better protect consumers and suppliers in both domestic and export markets, support scaling up of production, and facilitate market access and Greater Mekong Subregion product branding and marketing.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
Private institutions are creating new ways to learn and access learning tools for people to meet future skills demand.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Governments need the right mix of policies and projects to reap the benefits of urban growth.
It takes just three steps—avoid, shift, and improve—for Asia's cities to solve their growing traffic problems and get them moving again.
The SARS outbreak in 2003 provides insights on how we can mitigate the health and economic impact of COVID-19.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.