Hawker Centers: Serving Up Affordable Food for All Singapore's hawker centers are considered to be useful social tools that not only brings people from all walks of life together through affordable food but also provides a source of livelihood for those with limited financial means.
Improving Yield and Quality of Mung Beans in Bangladesh Production and export of high-quality mung beans can improve farmers’ incomes and nutrition.
A Single Approach is Not Enough to Help Poor, Rural Women A package of economic, social, legal, and institutional measures helps provide equal opportunity to minority and low-caste women in Nepal.
How RegTech Is Helping Banks Manage Risks Through digitization and automation of routine compliance obligations, RegTech is helping improve efficiency, reporting accuracy, and transparency in the financial sector.
How Can Asian Banks Navigate the Uncertain Macro Environment? Embracing small business banking opportunities, and tackling operational efficiency, data and technology challenges can help Asian banks weather the storm.
Three Steps to Help Women Have More Say in Local Government Putting resources toward specialized training, mentoring and confidence building is a successful formula for giving greater voice to women in the countryside.
New Thinking for Fragile States Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.
What Type of Protectionism Should We Fear? The new U.S. policy of forging bilateral trade pacts instead of multi-country deals will have wide-ranging impacts.
Smart Strategies for Getting More Women into the Workforce Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
Five Lessons Asia Must Learn to Survive the Next Crisis Asia may have survived the 2008 global economic crisis, but it’s not out of the woods yet. Here are five things the region’s financial systems must address to withstand the next big shock.