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- Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation or FAST Initiative presents a promising framework to make our agriculture and food systems much more sustainable and resilient to climate change, and to reduce carbon emissions.
- There is no doubt that climate change is the defining issue of our time.
- The last several centuries have each come to have a defining theme: the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Imperialism, the American Century.
- At COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the global community came together to discuss how to accelerate climate action.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical for the growth and development of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
- Across Asia and the Pacific, students and parents are breathing a sigh of relief as schools reopen and in-person classes gradually resume.
- Last month, when we met in Jakarta to discuss the collaboration between the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), we reflected on Indonesia's remarkable development progress. After years of strong policy leadership, the country stands on the cusp of upper middle-income status.
- Ensuring a constant level of grain production in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while maintaining the country’s gains in eliminating poverty are twin policy priorities in the State Council Decree for Comprehensive Promotion of Rural Vitalization, the country’s most prominent policy statement for 2022. These priorities are consistent with various other government visions for the coming years, including the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and would also contribute significantly to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Southeast Asia had been a global success story in fostering growth and reducing poverty.
- Like much of the world, China’s economic performance is set to be further overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022.
- After nearly a century of believing that engineering solutions could conquer nature to make cities productive and efficient centers of socio-economic development...
- Cambodia’s capital market has developed fast in recent years, presenting participants and regulators with an important question...
- ទីផ្សារមូលធននៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជា បានអភិវឌ្ឍយ៉ាងលឿនក្នុងរយៈពេលប៉ុន្មានឆ្នាំចុងក្រោយនេះ
- The Republic of Korea’s economy has fared relatively well during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to exceptional crisis management.
- If the world wants to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalization and regional cooperation.
- Earlier this year we witnessed a curious phenomenon: herds of elephants descending from the mountains to Kunming.
- The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic not only weakened economies and health systems, and resulted in human loss in the millions, but also widened existing gaps in realizing development targets on water security.
- The message for the world from the recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow is clear – we must reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and one of the biggest sources is energy.
Asia Can Do More to Boost Financial System After COVID Blows - Cyn-Young Park and Ramkishen S. Rajan
STF Regional cooperation is needed across a wide range of areas, from banking risks to raising funds for climate-related projects.- In a recent United Nations poll of young people in South Asia, 78% said that climate change has impacted their studies.