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In Southeast Asia, big data can help transform the delivery of education, health care, and social welfare and protection services.
An integrated, green, and people-centric urban development strategy can help make cities inclusive and sustainable.
Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
A combination of asphalt and concrete layers that incorporate plastic waste could make durable, sustainable, and cost-effective rural roads.
Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.
Replacing dispersed coal burning with centralized district heating can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
Using a new cement compound that applies nanoparticles can extend the service life of structures to 200 years or more.
Population aging threatens fiscal sustainability unless government takes steps to reduce elderly poverty and manage public spending on pensions and healthcare.
Increased availability of data and computing power have made it possible to set parameters beforehand that will trigger insurance coverage for a variety of risks.