ADB Today

  • Connectivity Policy Dialogue

    ADB's Managing Director General  Rajat M. Nag spoke on South Asia-Southeast Asia connectivity at a policy dialogue held at ADB's headquarters in Manila.

  • Strategic Programming Workshop

    A workshop on ADB's technical assistance and knowledge products and services to support development in the People's Republic of China was held in Beijing.

  • Women Entrepreneurs in Solomon Islands

    Opportunities and challenges for business women in the Solomon Islands were discussed at a workshop.

Highlights

New rice varieties are being developed and water-saving cultivation technologies promoted to help feed Asia's growing populations.

ADB pursues initiatives to make cities in the region more livable and environmentally sustainable.

Flexible, prepaid metering makes solar power affordable in rural India.

Publications

How to build bridges to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps.

Water must be recognized as an economic as well as a social good, as water security is crucial to the future of people, communities and nations across Asia and the Pacific region.

An analysis of the sources of food price fluctuations in 11 developing Asian countries shows that short-run movements are largely accounted for by the country’s own dynamics.

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