ADB has signed a $3 billion sovereign exposure exchange agreement with the World Bank to increase ADB’s lending capacity for its developing member countries.

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.

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.

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 ...

This publication presents an assessment of Cambodia's agriculture, natural resources, and rural development (ANRRD) sector and provides a strategy and road map for its future development.

This publication highlights brighter economic prospects for Asia and the Pacific amid ongoing challenges. It forecasts growth across the region’s developing economies of 4.8% this year and in 2024, up ...

This paper explores whether more established use of digital technology encourages new businesses to be more innovative, comparing 11 countries in Asia with 57 in other regions and highlighting policy ...

It considers how such currencies could leverage digital finance technologies and enhance the reach and value of formal financial products and services among the unbanked or underserved. It also looks ...

Approximately 2.69 million tuberculosis (TB) cases—about a quarter of the global cases—were reported in India on The Global TB Report 2019. There are nearly half a million “missing” cases every year, ...

Head of Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems,” German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); Professor of International and Development Economics, University of Bonn, ...