What can the Maldives learn from China's development?

"The most impressive thing was the continuity of the Chinese development plans," Ahmed Afzal Ibrahim, the Maldives' minister of state for finance and public enterprises, said. Linking plans to budgets and monitoring progress also stood out. But the lessons cannot simply be "copy pasted", they must be adapted to local conditions.

A workshop jointly organized by UN ESCAP and the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission brought officials together to explore how. Watch our interviews.