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Structured health assessments guide countries in strengthening climate-ready services, improving infrastructure, and reducing vulnerability across sectors.
There is a need for globally coordinated standards and principles that allow room for countries to adapt their policies.
Lessons from the Republic of Korea’s basic skills guarantee policy show how adaptive testing and guidance can ensure learning continuity amid COVID-19.
Analysis of field sampling and remote sensing data gives important insights into the potential for expanding beef cattle grazing and the challenges.
Bhutan must boost productivity in traditional crops while building capacity for high‑value agricultural exports.
Sri Lanka’s Aswesuma program can better support the vulnerable by refining targeting, improving data, and aligning aid with poverty reduction.
Easing the pension burden in Sri Lanka demands structural reforms and a transition to a contributory model.
Innovative reforms can play a role in helping tax systems to contribute to improved social protection and reduced inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Activating theme-based, cross-border circuits can help BIMSTEC tourism recover from the impacts of COVID-19.