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Features and Insights

Explore insights on solutions, case studies, best practices, and innovations addressing development challenges facing countries across Southeast Asia.  

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High-value horticulture in Viet Nam
Workers at a plastics recycling plant in Indonesia. Photo credit: ADB.

In Southeast Asia, waste startups nurture a culture of waste segregation, reduction, and recycling.

To facilitate the school-to-work transition, the Philippines focused on education reforms and skills development, job creation, and labor market interventions. Photo credit: ADB.

In the Philippines, a multifaceted approach is easing the transition of disadvantaged youth from school to work.

VinFast, Viet Nam’s first domestic car company and electric vehicle manufacturer, accounts for 45% of electric vehicle battery production in the country. Photo credit: ADB.

Low costs, access to raw materials, and proximity to markets make the country an ideal production site.

Before joining the initiative, ADB’s Healthy Oceans Program mobilized nearly $4 billion in cumulative ocean investments between 2019 and 2024. Photo credit: ADB.

The new phase of the largest multilateral effort to reduce marine litter focuses on projects in coastal areas, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

More than 90% of the businesses in BIMP-EAGA are comprised of MSMEs, making them a key growth engine. Photo credit: ADB.

The cooperation program strives to enhance MSME competitiveness, specialization, and innovation through capacity building, market access, and digital tools.

ASEAN needs $3.7 trillion to $6.7 trillion in green investments. Setting up a regional enewable energy certificate system is expected to increase investments in renewable energy and help realize the ASEAN Power Grid vision of a fully integrated system by supporting cross-border electricity trade. Photo credit: ADB.

A project supported by the BIMP-EAGA–Republic of Korea Fund provides a conceptual framework for creating a regional market.