Reversing Rural Poverty with Value Addition in Agribusiness Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.
Helping Women Cope with the COVID-19 Crisis Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on women can help policy makers design gender-sensitive measures as part of their economic recovery plan.
Designing Policies to Help Small Debtors Affected by COVID-19 Lessons from efforts of the Republic of Korea to help financially vulnerable borrowers before the pandemic can help shape effective measures.
Three Ways to Enhance Digital Financial Services Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
Putting Youth Employment at the Center of Asia's Pandemic Recovery Large-scale and youth-targeted government policies can mitigate the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on youth employment in Asia.
Coming Out Stronger from COVID-19: Policy Options on Migrant Health and Immigration A migrant-inclusive approach to risk mitigation benefits everyone and leads to better development outcomes.
Social Protection Interventions as Medium- and Long-Term Responses to the Pandemic Invest in preparedness and establish a shock-responsive social protection system to weather future shocks and reap dividends from resilience.
How Crisis Interventions Can Help Develop Long-Term Health System Reforms A program that subsidized medical expenses during a financial crisis provided the opportunity to help build a resilient health system in Mongolia.
Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Central Asia Privatization and corporatization can reduce costs, raise productivity, and improve social welfare.
Developing E-Commerce Policies in Central Asia The globalization of commerce requires consistent laws and regulations not only to authorize but also to regulate electronic communications.