'Nexus thinking' is key to resetting development in Asia

Stronger partnerships needed to safeguard food, energy and financial systems

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A woman works on a rice farm in Thailand: Agricultural technology companies are supporting small-scale farmers to better access finance in the country. © Reuters

Armida Alisjahbana is U.N. under-secretary-general and executive secretary of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Woochong Um is managing director general of the Asian Development Bank. Kanni Wignaraja is U.N. assistant secretary-general and director of the U.N. Development Programme's Asia and the Pacific bureau.

We are living in an era of "polycrisis."

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