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Leveraging technological innovations can help overcome growth constraints and increase agriculture’s economic contribution.
Increasing disaster risks in developing countries call for strategic planning and investments in resilient and low-carbon infrastructure.
Leverage machine learning and satellite imagery for informed resource allocation to enhance road quality and address development challenges.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
In Mongolia, community revolving funds helped poor households develop tourism goods and services aligned with biodiversity conservation.
The lessons learned by the Asian Development Bank, which was one of the last organizations to leave Afghanistan[1] in 1980 and one of the first to return in 2002.
In Thailand, subsidies, housing grants, educational programs and the leveraging of economies of scale are being used to benefit poor urban dwellers.
WASH investments through piped water, improved drainage, and waste management can help curb water-related disease risks and boost climate resilience for refugees and host communities.
Governments should provide policy and financial support to industries that shift to remote or noncontact transactions to cope with COVID-19.
Privatization and corporatization can reduce costs, raise productivity, and improve social welfare.