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Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.
Inclusive business models can effectively reduce inequality, helping vulnerable low-income earners get out of poverty.
Efforts focused on revegetation, grazing ban, hydrological connection, and community engagement to restore the wetland ecosystems, boost carbon sequestration, and improve livelihood.
In Kazakhstan, infection among workers at a road upgrading project was avoided because good occupational safety and health measures were in place.
By leveraging private sector expertise, resources, and innovation, PPPs can help ensure cost-effective healthcare delivery.
Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.
Involving residents from rural communities is key to improve access to markets and commercial areas.
Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.
A market-based approach for reducing air pollution offers countries in the region great potential for flexibility and innovation.
A new book identifies ways to stimulate Asian economic growth through a shift from traditional industrial policies to indigenous innovation.