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Alibaba’s digital financial services group shares its experience in using digital technology to reach the unbanked and underserved.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
A financial instrument to help governments finance disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction without over-stressing their fiscal budgets
Machine learning and satellite imagery can provide data needed by governments for effective property tax management more quickly and efficiently.
Risk communications must be able to dynamically respond to the progression of the pandemic.
Enhancing long-term care systems entails engaging stakeholders, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and establishing legal and regulatory frameworks.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
Here’s what worked and what didn’t for Asian Development Bank’s first regional technical assistance on innovation.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Systematic and sustainable urban development will help support Georgia’s national strategy for unlocking its full growth potential through urban planning and balanced regional development.