The Increasingly Overlooked Ingredient for Surviving the Next Asian Financial Crisis: Regional Cooperation Regional financial cooperation has strengthened Asian economies and made them more resilient, but attention toward this important work has waned in recent years.
Night Light Data: An Innovative Way to Track Development Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
How Partnering Can Get Kids Back in School A partnership between the government education department and a non-government organization in the Philippines gives a blueprint for improving access to basic education.
Improving Waste Management: Solutions from Five Asian Cities How to improve public health and environmental sustainability by facing the challenges of managing solid waste in Asia
Mandalay City: Outsourcing Waste Collection Services Myanmar’s second largest city tackles the challenges of improving and privatizing waste management.
Mahasarakham: Privatizing Landfill Operations A town in northeast Thailand looks into the feasibility of a design-build-operate scheme for developing a controlled landfill site.
Sorsogon City: Options for Developing a New Landfill Sorsogon City in the Philippines is investigating options for upgrading its open dumpsites to a properly managed landfill.
Bringing Private Sector Power to the Province How local governments in the Philippines are successfully forging multi-million dollar public-private partnership deals.
Understanding How Asian Banks are Dealing with Digital Disruption One of the strategies being used to transition to digital banking is to expand the customer base beyond people who use traditional banks.
How to Jumpstart the Cities that Drive Asian Economic Growth Governments need the right mix of policies and projects to reap the benefits of urban growth.