The Power of Retail Bonds: A Stable Funding Source for Asian Governments
Retail bonds provide stability, attract individual investors, and support financial literacy in Asia's growing bond market.
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Decarbonization Will Not Succeed Unless it is Equitable
The transition to global net zero to address climate change must be both ambitious and fair. Otherwise, it will not achieve its goals nor will it obtain the vital public support required over the long-term.
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Transition Finance is Critical to Address Climate Change
Transition finance, which provides financing to high carbon-emitting industries, should be part of a broad range of innovative financing options to address climate change.
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Global Warning: Asia is Critical to Addressing Climate Change
Asia emits about half of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions and that figure is set to increase if the right policies are not put in place.
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Four Ways To Fund Viet Nam’s COP26 Climate Commitments
Viet Nam is committing to ambitious goals to address climate change. Here’s how to fund them.
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Three Ways to Improve Air Quality and Build Climate Resilience in Mongolia
Mongolia is at a crucial moment with the chance to improve the everyday lives of its citizens through actions to improve air quality.
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Five Ways to Fund the Philippines’ Fight against Climate Change
How to finance action against climate change was a key topic at the United Nations COP27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh. For the Philippines, on the front lines of the global climate emergency, it is a make-or-break question.
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Women Must Be at The Forefront of The Transition to A Low-Carbon Economy
The transition to a low-carbon economy needs to be consciously designed to be socially equitable and inclusive–a just transition. Moreover, the transition cannot be gender-neutral but must be gender-just. -
How Providing Sustainable Finance to More Women Helps Fight Climate Change
Women´s contributions to climate action are severely limited by systems that downplay women´s roles, capacity, and potential. Greater access to sustainable and gender-equitable green finance will help women be frontrunners in global efforts to address climate change.
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How Supporting Women Farmers Can Ease Asia’s Food Security Crisis
Women need to be engaged in designing, implementing, and monitoring climate-smart agriculture. With a food crisis and climate change affecting millions of people in Asia and the Pacific, equipping female farmers with technology, support, and resources, is a win for women and food security overall.
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Factories or Call Centers? Asia Charts its Development Path
Asia’s industries, primarily manufacturing, fueled phenomenal economic growth and poverty reduction in recent decades. But today many countries are looking to the service sector as an alternative.
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Could ChatGPT be a Game Changer for International Development? We Asked It.
Large language model artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, Bard and others, has great potential in the world of international development. But – at least for now – it also has serious limitations.
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Connecting the Unbanked: How the Internet of Things can Expand Financial Services
The Internet of Things—a rapidly growing network of connected devices—can help bring financial services to those most in need.
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Women Must Be at The Forefront of The Transition to A Low-Carbon Economy
The transition to a low-carbon economy needs to be consciously designed to be socially equitable and inclusive–a just transition. Moreover, the transition cannot be gender-neutral but must be gender-just.
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Four Steps to Increase Investment in Disaster Displacement Solutions
To help those forced to move by disasters caused by natural hazards, innovative financing and greater cooperation between development and humanitarian sectors are needed.
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Four Ways to Accelerate Tourism Recovery in Asia
Countries in Asia and the Pacific need to work together to bring in more visitors from within and outside the region by adopting bilateral and regional agreements, and offering improved infrastructure and better skills.
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Your Questions Answered: What is Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index?
Milan Thomas, an ADB economist who specializes in social sector impact evaluation, and Yangchen C. Rinzin, a research fellow at the Centre for Bhutan and Gross National Happiness Studies, answer questions about the use of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness index.
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Excluding LGBTI People Hurts National Development. Here Are 3 Reasons Why.
Development efforts should provide all individuals, including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, with the opportunity to live with the identities they choose.