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Create an enabling environment with strong policies, institutions, and financial systems that support solutions that can adapt to changing needs.
Digital finance promises to be an effective means of reaching the unbanked, but its use must be accompanied by consumer information and education.
Mobilizing private capital for the water sector requires a strong regulatory environment, sound risk management, and financial sustainability.
Singapore's hawker centers are considered to be useful social tools that not only brings people from all walks of life together through affordable food but also provides a source of livelihood for those with limited financial means.
Demographic changes, such as population aging in East Asia, will affect productivity and competitiveness and shape how innovation is created.
Crises like a pandemic underscore the importance of alternative sources of high-quality and timely data in developing effective measures.
Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.
A study shows the planned railway will increase access to more and better jobs in 48 cities and municipalities in Metro Manila and Southern Luzon.
Strengthen regional initiatives by harnessing advances in technology, promoting cross-border technology transfer, and harmonizing policies and standards.
Through machine learning, data from nontraditional sources, such as telcos, are analyzed for credit risk assessment of the unbanked.