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Balanced regional integration boosts women's economic participation, driving gender-inclusive growth and reducing inequality in Sri Lanka.
Bucking the digital trend, the appetite for cash is driven by such factors as opportunity cost, precautionary motives, aging, and demand from abroad.
Regular consultations, monitoring, and follow-up measures can help successfully restore the income of project-affected persons.
Korean engineers develop a structural monitoring and measurement system that can manage multiple cable bridges in Southeast Asia.
Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
Climate-smart remodeling and operation of irrigation systems help improve water availability and upland farm productivity in two provinces of Cambodia.
A new framework enables near real-time monitoring of sea routes, helping improve decisions on vessel movement and transport of global goods.
Building regional regulatory capabilities in Asia and the Pacific requires strong oversight and sustained commitment to strengthening vaccine regulatory systems.
Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.
A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.