State-owned enterprises, including power utilities, in many countries have collected a menagerie of assets unrelated to their core business. And they are selling cheap.

Effective and planned shoreline management would trigger activities for tourism, and support development of ocean and beach landscape, conserve biodiversity along with coastal people’s livelihood.

Investment in renewable energy around the world is entering a new phase that will require governments and the private sector to re-think the way they develop projects.

At Camp No 5, in Cox's Bazar, there are about 632,000 displaced people still living in terrible conditions. But an international humanitarian effort is helping people in the community in southern Bangladesh live a better life. 

Better information and a willingness to tackle difficult issues are necessary to ensure a fit-for-purpose and accountable health system in Papua New Guinea.

Carefully designed social programs offer the best chance to avoid corruption, inefficiency and other governance problems. 

Total asset management brings together all aspects of what it takes to make a city vibrant and livable.

Skills training, civic engagement and youth forums will help young people become active players in society’s shared efforts to grow and improve.

Important changes are underway for Southeast Asia’s relationship with its biggest trading partner, the People’s Republic of China.

Public work programs can build much-needed infrastructure while helping lift people out of poverty and shield them from the effects of natural disasters and economic crises

Technology is a critical aspect of improving the availability and accessibility of clean water around the world.

Governance can be a complex, broad topic but its basic underlying definition is deceptively simple.

Re-examining the design of rural road projects will make them more effective in improving the lives of the people living nearby.

There is one sector that contributes up to a third of gross domestic product, and is an important source of foreign currency, in many of Asia’s developing countries. It could be deployed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Disaster-related displacement is often negative, but can result in more resilient communities under the right circumstances. This can include better management of remittances sent to family members in the disaster zone.

Investments in universal health coverage are investments in economic growth. They play a critical role in leveraging opportunities, anticipating challenges, and delivering the knowledge, expertise, and financing countries need to achieve universal health coverage.

Underserved businesses run by women in Armenia need help to create a reliable client base and convince skeptical banks that their enterprises are a good investment.

Collecting sex-disaggregated data on asset ownership is an important step in achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific.

Central Asia is improving food safety measures to share with the world some of the more than 8000 plant species, as well as livestock, from the region.

To get energy efficiency programs back on track, governments need to focus on education, incentives and improved regulations, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Guarantees are one of government’s most powerful financing tools for mobilizing private sector participation in development projects.

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Get to work on a bike - European governments work to put in place wider and more cycle paths

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The deadly impact of Covid-19 on Europe's care homes

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Outspoken Libyan princess Alia Al Senussi supports ‘New Saudi’ art scene

How are people traveling to museums & art galleries from home

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