Search Subscribe
Sign up for our free newsletter and get more of Development Asia delivered to your inbox.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
The pandemic is having a profound impact on how learning is delivered and how it unfolds for millions of learners all over the world.
Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.
The Republic of Korea has been a leader in training government officials to be catalysts of economic development.
Creating project readiness checklists and certification programs on procurement, financial management, and safeguards will help ensure effective project implementation.
Accelerating universal access to water and sanitation is critical to preventing and managing future health crises.
Timor-Leste can improve its business environment by focusing on investment promotion efforts, strengthening investment facilitation, and using a more problem-driven approach.