Investments in universal health coverage are investments in economic growth. They play a critical role in leveraging opportunities, anticipating challenges, and delivering the knowledge, expertise, and financing countries need to achieve universal health coverage.

Governance can be a complex, broad topic but its basic underlying definition is deceptively simple.

Skills training, civic engagement and youth forums will help young people become active players in society’s shared efforts to grow and improve.

‘Build back better’ is often easier said than done after a disaster, but one example from the People’s Republic of China shows that it can be done well. 

Quantum computing could change the face of many international development programs, including those involving transport, financial services and health care.

灾后“重建得更好”通常说起来容易，做起来难，但中华人民共和国的例子表明，这是可以实现的。

The World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement provides a roadmap for developing economies to increase trade while also increasing the benefits it provides to their citizens.

In the Philippines, cloud-based technology is being used to address the financial exclusion that helps fuel poverty and inequality.

Global supply chains link the welfare of disaster-hit companies and their surrounding communities to a network of corporations that have an economic incentive to help them bounce back. 

Despite decreases in hunger due to economic growth, millions in Asia remain malnourished and without direct action the situation could get worse.

A tax on migrating workers compensates the exporting country for loss of the human capital created by its education and skills development programs.

The Asia and Pacific region is aging rapidly, and that is affecting the region’s workforce, but increased longevity is adding an unexpected element to the picture

Data-driven decision making can be a powerful tool in the world of international development but it requires careful planning and management. 

Bhutan is using an innovative financing system to ensure its citizens have access to quality affordable health care.

Với những cải cách tài chính quan trọng, TP Hồ Chí Minh có tiềm năng theo mô hình của Tokyo, Thượng Hải, Mumbai và các thành phố khác thành các trung tâm nổi trội về tài chính toàn cầu.

The poor and middle class are struggling to find affordable housing across the region, but there are some basic steps cities can take to improve the situation.

Work done within the home, including caring for children, is extremely important to society but undervalued and poorly tracked. 

Artificial intelligence could be enormously beneficial to society, and it could also lead to catastrophe. Governments can play a role determining the outcome of AI’s development.

Past financial crises have demonstrated how adequate financial safety net arrangements—globally, regionally, and nationally—are vital to safeguarding financial stability.

After a disappointing 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, there is a need to restore confidence that the intergovernmental process can deliver on mitigation, adaptation, and finance.

In Sri Lanka, efforts need to be made to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for girls to support their employment potential.

Practical approaches can improve how we promote development research, and increase uptake by policymakers

The delivery of services – such as clean water, reliable public transport, schools and hospitals – through economic and social infrastructure is among the most important functions of government. Resources must be well spent to ensure quality.

To be resilient, urban poor and informal households need secure tenure, which is a household’s right to reside on the land on which they are living.

Complex, carefully managed financing structures can provide the funding needed for island states and others seeking to develop energy projects.

Singapore’s carbon tax is designed to maximize green investments while minimizing negative effects on the overall economy.

Châu Á và Thái Bình Dương chưa có được tiến độ cần thiết để đạt được các Mục tiêu Phát triển Bền vững nhưng vẫn còn một thập niên để bù lại thời gian đã mất.

Asian cities act as engines of economic growth, providing jobs, expertise, and the sharing of resources. But in some cases, these powerful engines are sputtering due to insufficient infrastructure, inadequate planning, and poor governance.

Developing a holistic national student assessment system can be a colossal undertaking but strategic measures can produce results.

Asia’s economies have generally maintained sound macroeconomic policies that can help the region withstand this latest challenge and emerge even stronger.

The Asia Pacific region is standing together to cooperate regionally to address the transnational threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The surge in online learning in the People’s Republic of China during the coronavirus outbreak highlights the importance of infrastructure, platforms and the preparedness of teachers, students and parents.

A new program will help provide food to thousands of poor households in the Philippines.

亚洲经济体普遍采取了稳健的宏观经济政策，这有助于亚洲渡过此次难关，变得更加强大。

The pandemic provides an opportunity for regional financial cooperation on reforms to make Asian banks more resilient to crises.

The production processes and supply chains that feed into the production of masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment must be secured.

With timely and well-targeted programs, policy makers can prevent the health crisis from deepening into a wider economic and financial crisis. This could sow the seeds of economic recovery.  

These charts illustrate how Asian and global stock markets reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic, with market reaction closely following local outbreaks and then moving in unison with global markets amid other shocks.

The pandemic reinforces the need for reliable energy services to support healthcare. Clean, renewable power is a good place to start.

疫情之下，危机并存。亚洲的银行可借机合作，开展区域金融改革，增强自身抵御危机能力。

As the pandemic continues, the supply chains producing vital personal protective equipment are starting to fail, causing shortages. Countries and international organizations can fill these gaps by working together.

Countries can minimize the economic risk of epidemics by investing in the tools needed to predict disease emergence.

A forward-looking, regional approach is needed for countries in Central Asia to respond to the pandemic and prepare for future public health threats.

To reduce air pollution, national and city government policy makers, their development partners, academe, and the private sector need to work with young people. 

NEW DELHI: Since the election results were announced last week — handing out a clear mandate to the Narendra Modi-led BJP — real estate brokers across the country have been prodding buyers to book their dream homes fast, since with a stable government on the cards, builders could increase prices any time soon. Business for thousands of brokers has been thin over the last year or so as negative sentiment engulfed the market and home sales tanked. Investors fled and genuine home buyers waited anxiously to see if a new stable government can infuse life into the economy. “It might just be a case of brokers trying to perk up […]

NEW DELHI: Builders are scrambling to acquire cheap land and technology for low-cost housing after the government and central bank announced incentives for affordable housing, including cheaper loans to developers and buyers. Real estate companies including Tata Housing, ATS Infrastructure, Bhartiya Group and Anantraj Industries are busy sewing up land deals for projects in the Rs 5-20 lakh home segment. There is unlimited demand for homes in this segment, say experts. “There is a large market for such homes but a big supply constraint as well,” said Shailesh Pathak, executive director of the Bhartiya Group, which is planning to build 10,000 low-cost homes over the next two-three years on a […]

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Wednesday the German soccer league Bundesliga can resume playing later this month, ending a two-month pause prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Merkel made the announcement as one of a range of containment measures being relaxed, following a meeting with the c...

Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul visited the border truce village of Panmunjom on Wednesday, just three days after North Korea fired at a South Korean guard post in the demilitarized zone.Kim also visited the site of a guard post in the border town of Paju, Gyeonggi Province that was dismantl...