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Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.

A prototype online platform was created based on a new method for analyzing the quality of secondary education.

Regulatory and financial innovations can ensure that microfinance benefits those who need them most.

Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.

A series of reviews or "gateway" assessments by an independent agency helps ensure proper preparation and implementation of infrastructure projects.

Nature-based solutions offer multiple co-benefits and are implementable at community scale.

Strong governance is essential to achieving climate goals, mobilizing resources, and accelerating climate-resilient development.

Asia's rapid urbanization requires the balanced and holistic development of second-tier cities and towns to release pressure from congested megacities.

Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development. 

Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.