Random Thoughts

• ➤ Unlocking trade potential in services through digitalization
• ➤ Providing quality education to one million students in Thailand’s small schools
• ➤ ADB delivers on sustainability with carbon-neutral Annual Meeting
• ➤ Finding peace in Colombia
• ➤ Competitive advantage in the knowledge economy
• ➤ Trade has been a global force for less poverty and higher incomes
• ➤ Finger Splints, Coding, Drones and R2D2: The Evolving Face of Technology and Development
• ➤ A Greener Growth Path to Sustain Thailand’s Future
• ➤ Unlocking PNG’s full potential in developing rural health services
• ➤ Progress In the Fight Against Global Poverty In Peril As Africa’s Economies Slow Down
• ➤ Transit-oriented development and the case of the Marina Bay area in Singapore
• ➤ Everyone misbehaves: Putting the 2017 Economics Nobel Prize to work for development
• ➤ Why developing Asia should not fear technological progress
• ➤ Managing PPP risks with a new guide on guarantees
• ➤ China’s Big Dam Problem
• ➤ Adult Supervision Needed
• ➤ Profiles of the Diaspora: Mounir Beltaifa
• ➤ Three threats to Afghanistan’s future: Rising poverty, insecurity, sluggish growth
• ➤ Power walking: Turn each step into clean energy
• ➤ How results-based financing can help achieve the SDGs: dealing with a refugee crisis
• ➤ Opinion: In India, eliminating tuberculosis isn't just a health issue — it's an economic one
• ➤ Index insurance is having a development impact where it’s needed most
• ➤ Forever Young? What Africa can learn from Southern Africa’s demographic transition
• ➤ Where are the gaps in the way we campaign?
• ➤ It’s Time to Get “Ambitious” About Partnerships
• ➤ Doubling Down on the Peace Corps in Guatemala
• ➤ A new way to mitigate buyer risk in apparel
• ➤ Time for SMEs in CAREC to move beyond borders
• ➤ Countries move ahead on SDGs without UN framework in place
• ➤ To foster innovation, let a hundred flowers bloom?
• ➤ Boosting fuel efficiency to cut motorcycle pollution in Viet Nam
• ➤ Baiting banks: 2 lessons from incentivizing SME lending
• ➤ Agribusiness trade as a pillar of development: Measurement and patterns
• ➤ A promising but bumpy road ahead for blockchain
• ➤ Papua New Guinea: Improving literacy in Bougainville, one step at a time
• ➤ Cheers, NZ: How New Zealand and the World Bank are changing lives in the Pacific
• ➤ Stronger together: Stepping up our partnerships with the UN
• ➤ Can venture capital fill the SME finance gap in Sri Lanka?
• ➤ Transcending fragility – The importance of inclusive leadership
• ➤ 10 Policy Tools that Governments Are Implementing to Spur Social Enterprise
• ➤ Developing venture capital for young startup firms in Morocco
• ➤ Growing the ‘economic pie’ in Armenia
• ➤ Media (R)evolutions: What’s the future of the sharing economy?
• ➤ Making public-private partnerships work for post-conflict countries
• ➤ 6 challenges to advancing GMS economic corridors
• ➤ Experiments in Development from Every Angle: A Review of Tim Ogden's new book
• ➤ Investing in Research for Sustainable Solutions
• ➤ Women Masons in Tamil Nadu: Lessons from a unique experiment
• ➤ Is the Anti-Politics machine still a good critique of the aid business?
• ➤ A Tech Hub in Mogadishu Aspires to Link Investors and Innovators
• ➤ Pro-market activism: A new role for the state in promoting access to finance
• ➤ Inspecting Poland's inspections
• ➤ The economic benefits of LGBTI inclusion
• ➤ Demystifying the NAMA, a Caribbean perspective
• ➤ Finding opportunities in Upper Egypt’s underdeveloped regions
• ➤ Why Digital Payments Are Key to Entrepreneurs’ Success
• ➤ Success factors in Turkey’s Elaziğ healthcare PPP
• ➤ Juncker: Brexit Not End of EU
• ➤ Why distressed asset resolution is important to development finance
• ➤ Making the built environment more resilient: lessons learned from Japan
• ➤ Animal husbandry and dairy development: State of Haryana’s initiatives in India
• ➤ The implications of automation for education
• ➤ Is Asia ready for inclusive social protection?
• ➤ How did starting a business become easier than ever?
• ➤ Pushing GMS food up the value chain
• ➤ Will South Africa turn the corner in 2017?
• ➤ Building the foundation for better early childhood care and education in Sri Lanka
• ➤ Media (R)evolutions: Virtual Reality – a future business model for newsrooms?
• ➤ De-risking impedes access to finance for non-profit organizations