Search Subscribe
Sign up for our free newsletter and get more of Development Asia delivered to your inbox.
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.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
Wholesale and retail trade, textiles, construction, electronics, and food and beverage show high circularity potential.
Blockchain technology is making waves in developing countries across Asia.
A pilot project in the Philippines gives livelihood support and coaching to poor households, which helped them cope better with the COVID-19 crisis.
Warning systems and other measures will help save lives, protect biodiversity, and reduce rail service disruptions.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
A study examines the feasibility of applying computer vision techniques to satellite data of the Philippines and Thailand to produce poverty maps.
Improving water supply access and sustainability amid environmental challenges requires radical changes in how water resources are developed and delivered.
Water utilities in many cities in the People’s Republic of China may have achieved high level of cost recovery because of increased tariffs.