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Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
Computer-assisted surveys make data collection possible despite COVID-19 travel and social restrictions.
In the Republic of Korea, a mobile and low-cost motorcycle inspection system was developed for commercialization and export.
Digital technology is a game changer in reducing remittance costs between overseas workers and developing countries in Asia.
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.
Regional cooperation and improved data practices can help address the challenge of plastic pollution more effectively.
Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.
Increased road crashes linked to motorcycles call for improving policies on their use for public transport and logistics.
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.
A pilot project in Viet Nam will test a heat exchange technology that reuses industrial wastewater for heating and cooling production processes.