News: ITU, ADB and the World Bank
Digital solutions can help fill in the trade finance gap for SMEs in Asia and the Pacific.
Beyond political rhetoric, the question is whether the current trend is indeed ominous of growing protectionism on the horizon.
An ADB-supported project has made a significant positive impact toward achieving financial inclusion for people living in remote areas of Papua New Guinea.
Enabling new digital financial services models requires an open-minded approach to innovation, with sufficient certainty over the legal framework.
The external vote of confidence in ASEAN bond markets seems to be driven by the region’s strong medium- and long-term growth prospects, which bodes well for their future beyond the short term.
The new mechanism in the deal against climate change can generate momentum for market-based instruments to encourage low-carbon growth.
Innovations in ICT and the emergence of new fintech players are accelerating financial inclusion much more rapidly than at any other time in history.
Inefficient public institutions result from imperfect, costly information, or that which there is a lack of capacity to analyze.
From past experience we know how quickly the bursting of a privately leveraged boom cycle ends up weighing on national budgets and public debt.
The construction of the first high-speed rail line can be a game-changer for Indian Railways and lead to the creation of a nationwide network.