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

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Agentic AI is the next step in MSME digital transformation in Southeast Asia, but its value depends on gradual, targeted adoption rather than full-scale automation. Photo credit: iStock/useng.
From Generative to Agentic: The Next Phase of AI Adoption for MSMEs

While agentic AI can help businesses manage workflows, it delivers the greatest impact when it complements human decision-making rather than replaces it.

Keeping the public informed through official heat warnings can help prevent heatstroke and other health problems. Photo credit: ADB.
El Niño Returns—What It Means for Southeast Asia

Heat waves expected, but early action and investing in resilience could prevent or reduce adverse effects.

An ADB program has supported at least 80 partnerships in 21 countries in the region, with about $1.1 billion in investments in water supply and sanitation. Photo credit: ADB.
Sharing Sanitation Best Practices to Expand Sustainable Resource Management in Southeast Asia

Encouraging sanitation providers in Southeast Asia to twin can help boost operational efficiency and improve services.

Ports connect cruise operations with community wellbeing, environmental stewardship, and destination quality. Photo credit: ADB.
Growth Without Compromise: The Case for Sustainable Cruise Ports

Cruise and tourism ports across Southeast Asia can help ensure growing passenger volumes deliver lasting economic, social, and environmental value.

For many ASEAN countries, the strongest rationalie for bioenergy is energy security. Photo credit: ADB.
Balancing Promise and Reality: How Bioenergy Can Support ASEAN’s Energy Security and Decarbonization

ASEAN must not champion or reject bioenergy wholesale but govern it wisely.

Electricité du Cambodge provided the land and grid connection for the solar park, while private developers handled the design and construction of the solar PV plants as well as associated operations and maintenance risks. Photo credit: ADB.
Scaling Solar Deployment to Lower Electricity Cost

The first large-scale solar park in Cambodia shows how public–private partnerships and risk sharing can produce energy at competitive prices.

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