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When financiers can be agents of positive change

By Vinod Thomas on Wednesday, 19 September 2018

With Strategy 2030, ADB has a crucial chance to make a difference in achieving a better quality of growth in the region.
Got solar? Now add batteries

By Sohail Hasnie on Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Solar energy regulators are giving a clear signal to the market: the grid is not your battery, so please buy your own.
How digital technology can raise tax revenue in Asia-Pacific

By Yasushi Suzuki, Richard Highfield on Thursday, 13 September 2018

Asian economies are gradually making progress in transforming their tax administration in the digital age.
Technological innovation is a game-changer for agricultural statistics

By Lakshman Nagraj Rao, Jude David Roque, Anna Christine D. Durante on Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Both emerging and existing technologies should complement each other to bolster agricultural data quality.
Turning women’s aspirations into reality in Lao PDR

By Theonakhet Saphakdy on Tuesday, 04 September 2018

An ADB-supported project gave women an opportunity to enhance their social status by growing their income.
Innovative technology brings access to clean water in rural Vanuatu

By Stephen P. Groff on Friday, 31 August 2018

A new solar-powered drinking water technology converts sunshine, air, and rain into safe drinking water.
Can we achieve universal electricity access without coal?

By Yongping Zhai on Friday, 31 August 2018

While coal will still keep the grid up and running for now, renewable energy-based distributed systems can meet growing demand in the near future.
How to make small businesses grow

By Aimee Hampel on Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Expanding MSMEs requires several skills, the most important of which is immense human capital in the entrepreneur.