ADB President Masato Kanda reaffirmed ADB’s commitment to deepening partnerships and advancing multilateral collaboration during engagements with key development partners on the sidelines of the 2025 ...

Group, chaired in 2025 by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), met today to review progress on joint actions and chart priority areas for the Group’s future work.

Malnutrition costs Asia $346 billion annually, undermining productivity and growth. Yet every $1 invested in nutrition yields up to $23 in economic returns. Discover how nutrition-smart financing can ...

ADB and Indigo Tajikistan Closed Joint Stock Company (Tcell) have signed a $30 million equivalent local currency financing agreement to expand and modernize mobile connectivity in Tajikistan.

ADB has approved the second phase of Cambodia’s Energy Transition Sector Development Program for $82.5 million.

ADB President Masato Kanda concluded a visit to Canada this week, meeting with government leaders and business representatives to deepen collaboration on private sector engagement, energy security, ...

ADB has appointed Jyotsana Varma as the new Regional Director of its Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO) in Sydney, where she will lead operations for Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Opening remarks by Masato Kanda, President, Asian Development Bank, at a Luncheon Discussion with Canadian Business Leaders, , Toronto, Canada ...

Analyzing how the role of ASEAN economies in global value chains has helped spur their recovery and cut poverty, this publication shows the need to future-proof these critical networks to ensure ...

Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated ...

Designed as a tool kit, it considers the impacts of COVID-19, analyzes the enabling environment for disaster risk financing, and considers the role capital markets, insurance, and other risk transfer ...

Accounting for the value of nonmarket benefits and costs is an essential part of project economic analysis. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is a stated preference approach used in many areas of ...