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Universities of the Future Must Embrace Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Universities need to look beyond single-discipline learning and embrace knowledge that cuts across disciplines to resolve some daunting challenges. -
Empowering Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Kazakhstan
Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Kazakhstan need increased financing coupled with targeted, innovative solutions to continue driving the economy and creating jobs. -
Government-Backed Digital Currencies Can Be a Powerful Tool for Financial Inclusion
Government-backed digital currencies can help remote communities leap-frog the limitations of traditional currencies and get more people into financial systems. -
Four Ways To Fund Viet Nam’s COP26 Climate Commitments
Viet Nam is committing to ambitious goals to address climate change. Here’s how to fund them. -
Which Asian Countries Are Most Supportive of Digital Entrepreneurship?
These charts illustrate how countries in Asia and around the world are doing in developing an environment that produces dynamic entrepreneurs who innovate and create jobs. -
How to Address the Teaching Challenge in Schools across Pakistan
Pakistan can improve its education system by taking measures to ensure the availability of qualified teachers and to enhance the quality of teaching. -
How Providing Sustainable Finance to More Women Helps Fight Climate Change
Women´s contributions to climate action are severely limited by systems that downplay women´s roles, capacity, and potential. Greater access to sustainable and gender-equitable green finance will help women be frontrunners in global efforts to address climate change. -
Asia and the Pacific’s Developing Countries Need a Mission to Move Forward
As the region recovers from the pandemic there is an opportunity to rethink how development is undertaken and to deploy mission-oriented approaches to policy making. -
Confronting Asia’s Triple Threat: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Food Insecurity
Without progress on climate and biodiversity, there will be no progress on food security. To address these interlinked challenges, we need an unprecedented level of multilateral, private, and public sector cooperation. -
Does Corruption Discourage Entrepreneurship?
In economies where government officials can be bribed, or other acts of corruption undertaken to start a business or innovate, entrepreneurship is less likely to thrive.
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