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Protecting ecosystems is real development, and it has an amazing return on investment.
An urban housing project in India is using carefully sequenced interventions to help climate-vulnerable households relocate to safe areas and sustainably rebuild their lives.
ADB’s Triple A initiative empowers atoll nations to tackle climate change and secure a resilient future through transformational adaptation strategies.
Water utilities in many cities in the People’s Republic of China may have achieved high level of cost recovery because of increased tariffs.
Developing efficient institutions and technical capacity building can strengthen regional cooperation and integration in Central Asia.
In the People’s Republic of China, reducing the risk of illness-induced poverty entails raising the poor’s financial protection and health system reforms.
Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
To obtain development gains through digital investments, invest in their analog complements: policy and infrastructure.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
A coordinated policy approach toward improving market efficiency, education outcomes, and infrastructure will enable the highest possible growth.