Recent Opinions

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• ➤ With intelligent transport systems, Asia can beat traffic and boost growth
• ➤ What’s the latest systems research on the quality of governance?
• ➤ How to maintain one of the world’s toughest road systems
• ➤ Yes they can: SMEs filling the infrastructure gap in fragile countries
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• ➤ Want to keep girls in school? Teach them to negotiate.
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• ➤ Migration and remittances can speed up Asia’s development. Here’s how
• ➤ What’s the latest systems research on the quality of governance?
• ➤ How can Asia keep looming financial challenges at bay?
• ➤ Sustainable development requires a higher domestic revenue effort
• ➤ 3 things to remember when building tomorrow’s hospitals
• ➤ Leveraging technology to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
• ➤ Can coordinated city clusters take off in the PRC?
• ➤ Why developing Asia should not fear technological progress
• ➤ Opinion: Public-private partnerships offer transformative positive change
• ➤ How secure is blockchain?
• ➤ Let’s help them grow: Opening doors for women entrepreneurs
• ➤ Financial inclusion for Asia's unbanked
• ➤ Measuring rice yield from the sky
• ➤ The power of sunlight: incentivizing private investment in solar PV
• ➤ The future of transport is here. Are you ready?
• ➤ Philippine BPOs: Getting ahead of the automation curve
• ➤ Debunking 3 myths on energy SOE reform in Central Asia, South Caucasus
• ➤ How is your life different from that of your parents?
• ➤ Microcredit that helps more than just the borrower
• ➤ What’s the latest research on the quality of governance?
• ➤ We need to invest more in higher education. Here’s why
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• ➤ What’s the latest research on the quality of governance?
• ➤ Will automation create jobs, or destroy them?
• ➤ A tipping point for solar energy?
• ➤ 6 ways to deploy ICT for quality education
• ➤ Opinion: Countries need to build National Health Equity Strategies. Here's how.
• ➤ How fintech can accelerate financial inclusion in Indonesia
• ➤ Time to dismantle legal barriers to climate finance in Asia-Pacific
• ➤ How blockchain can rebuild consumer trust in insurance
• ➤ How financial inclusion reduces poverty, income inequality
• ➤ Kigali Water: Lessons from Africa’s first water PPP
• ➤ Behold the White Knights! New research on institutional investor participation in financing EMDE infrastructure
• ➤ To unlock student potential in East Asia Pacific, be demanding and supportive of teachers
• ➤ How can the changing trade landscape reshape global imbalances?
• ➤ To improve competitive edge, Indonesia needs better jobs
• ➤ To improve competitive edge, Indonesia needs better jobs
• ➤ To build a brighter future, invest in women and girls
• ➤ No progress on gender if women, girls stay hungry
• ➤ How can machine learning and artificial intelligence be used in development interventions and impact evaluations?
• ➤ Why did the elephant cross the road?
• ➤ Over-indebtedness – the flip side of financial inclusion
• ➤ Demystifying technologies for digital identification
• ➤ Learning from Japan: PPPs for infrastructure resilience
• ➤ Unlocking money flows in the Pacific
• ➤ Opinion: The Development Credit Authority needs to stay in USAID
• ➤ Railways are the future—so how can countries finance them?
• ➤ Want to build low-carbon infrastructure? Try local currency green bonds
• ➤ Growth miracles: Are they things of the past?
• ➤ Can cryptocurrencies and blockchain help fight corruption?
• ➤ Schools are teaching 10 million girls to code; gender equality is a real possibility
• ➤ How an online platform helps drive infrastructure in developing countries
• ➤ Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across generations
• ➤ How to address the lack of affordable housing in Asia
• ➤ Reflections on forty years of China’s reforms
• ➤ Electricity in a box: Looking back at our off-grid journey
• ➤ In evaluating development projects, pressing for better tools in measuring job creation
• ➤ Innovate to irrigate: 19 innovations to increase food production without draining the earth
• ➤ To make our kids smarter, let’s start feeding them properly
• ➤ Fostering sustainable development through carbon markets
• ➤ 5 ways to make textbooks relevant in a digital world
• ➤ Opinion: Better health means better security — and more sustainable development
• ➤ Building trust and improving the business environment: A win-win proposition
• ➤ E-commerce key to modernized farming in the PRC
• ➤ Using technology to promote youth employment: How to develop digital solutions
• ➤ How to expand international climate finance investments
• ➤ Giving Francophone African incubators the keys to accelerate growth entrepreneurship
• ➤ Insuring India: States learn about health insurance from each other
• ➤ Climate-smart agriculture: Lessons from Africa, for the World
• ➤ Clean energy predictions for 2018 – and why I was wrong about 2017
• ➤ Baiting banks: 2 lessons from incentivizing SME lending
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• ➤ Invest in health impact assessment now
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• ➤ To Resist the Robots, Invest in People
• ➤ How Managed Equipment Services in Kenya help the private sector contribute to healthcare
• ➤ Fossil fuel subsidies – a harmful government expenditure
• ➤ Opinion: How public-private partnerships can unlock billions for health financing
• ➤ The New ASEAN Green Bonds Standards
• ➤ Opinion: Internet inclusion is meaningless without digital literacy
• ➤ Building benchmarks for infrastructure investors: a long but worthwhile journey
• ➤ To transform agricultural extension, give youth a voice
• ➤ Pushing GMS food up the value chain
• ➤ Enhancing the quality of justice: the role of user feedback
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• ➤ Tourism: Georgian youth’s big hope for the future
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• ➤ Fed interest rate hike: How hard will it hit Asia?
• ➤ Creating “Solid Ground” for gender equality in land access
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• ➤ Civil Society voices on tracking universal health coverage
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• ➤ Technology and market developments in the remittance industry
• ➤ The future of jobs and automation: What I learned from my teenage son
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• ➤ In Singapore, exponential technologies flourish and forward-looking policies are being established to address development challenges
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• ➤ How the unelectrified poor can leapfrog to off-grid solar
• ➤ Improving access to finance for SMEs in Tanzania: Learning from Malaysia’s experience
• ➤ An opportunity to reinvent our food system and unlock human capital too
• ➤ Delivering the Eurasian century: South Asia looks northwest
• ➤ New fiber optic connection brings broadband internet to Palau
• ➤ Digital innovation brings development and humanitarian work closer together
• ➤ How ADB is supporting PRC’s drive to become an “ecological civilization”
• ➤ Hackathons and mobile apps: developing innovative responses to sexual violence in Kyrgyzstan
• ➤ Populism and development policy
• ➤ Cyber violence: Disrupting the intersection of technology and gender-based violence
• ➤ How can the TPP without the US still make sense?
• ➤ Powered by education, East Asia is getting ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• ➤ Taking power trading to the next level in South Asia
• ➤ How can communication generate successful and sustainable reforms?
• ➤ What lies beneath gender equality, labor, and migration in the PRC
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• ➤ Political economy drivers of PFM reforms: a systematic look at what we all know somehow
• ➤ Time to think green in financing, too
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• ➤ How can Malawi move from falling behind to catching up?
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• ➤ Pacific needs a voice in international arbitration
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• ➤ To improve female labour force participation in Sri Lanka, first change attitudes
• ➤ Unlocking trade potential in services through digitalization