Op-eds and Opinion

The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge of this generation thus far. But pandemics are not new. 

The world is experiencing what some may think is a “typical” black swan event: rare, extremely impactful, and only retrospectively predictable. 

Интеллектуальные технологии, такие как искусственный интеллект, обещают внести коренные перемены в давнюю „азиатскую модель роста‟, которая способствовала промышленному развитию в развивающейся Азии. 

Smart technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) promise to disrupt the long-standing "Asian growth model" that has fuelled industrial development in developing Asia.

Cities have always played a central role in economic development by bringing workers and entrepreneurs together, spurring innovation, and sharing resources including infrastructure more efficiently.

Multilateral development banks put a lot of currency on knowledge sharing to spur innovation and help countries leapfrog development.

As they extend their power grids, build more roads and bigger cities, and cultivate forestland, developing countries in Asia and the Pacific are increasingly contributing to the global climate change problem.

Reserve asset management in Asian economies is becoming more and more complex.

Every time I pass by the busy streets of developing Asian cities, Thimphu’s included, I couldn’t help but notice the bustling small businesses lining up the side streets.

Over the past two decades, the Asia and Pacific region has made progress in reducing gender gaps in certain areas, most notably education.