Aging Before Affluence: Why Investing in the Care Economy Matters Senior care in the PRC and the region must be treated as an economic investment—integrated, digitally enabled, and open to private capital.
Affordable Housing Needs a Systems Approach A systems approach can align housing finance, supply, services, resilience, and inclusion to close Asia and the Pacific’s housing gap.
How Building Health Facilities Boosts Local Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea Communities benefit from employment and skills transfer when PNG-based companies engage in construction projects through a build local approach.
From Informality to Productive Employment: Role of Digital Transformation Reducing informality requires helping workers and firms move into more productive activities through skills, technology, and firm upgrading.
How Korea's National Learning Card Expanded Access to Lifelong Learning The Republic of Korea broadened access to skills development by simplifying support for training across employment statuses.
Managing Subsidies and Transfers for Sustainable Development in India India should shift toward targeted, transparent, and fiscally sustainable welfare systems that support long-term development.
When Geography Shapes Aging: Care Poverty in Sri Lanka’s Hill Communities As Sri Lanka’s population ages, many older people in remote hill villages are being left without adequate support, services, or income security.
Expanding Access While Managing Risk in Open Finance in Asia and the Pacific The benefits of open finance are closely linked to how well its risks are understood and managed.
Managing Dementia Money in Aging Societies: Lessons from the Republic of Korea Trust-based frameworks safeguard vulnerable people while ensuring their assets support care and quality of life.
Reorienting Health Systems to Tackle Noncommunicable Diseases Strengthening multi-sectoral policy response can help health systems adapt to the increasing dominance of noncommunicable diseases.