European Representative Office

• Afghanistan Donor Conference
• Trade Finance Facilitation Program
• Governance Fund
• Bangladesh Education Program
• ADB's Second Water Week
• Finance Conference
• ADF IX Meeting
• Cooperation Fund
• New ADB Vice-President

• Poverty and Environment Fund
• ADO 2003 Update
• Afghanistan Postconflict Reconstruction
• GMS Cooperation Program
• ADF Replenishment
• Review of Disclosure Policy
• Denmark Provides New Fund
• Key Indicators 2003 Launched
• New ADB Publications

• Asian Development Outlook
• 3rd World Water Forum
• Forum on Harmonization
• Cooperation with NGOs
• Gender and Development CooperationFund
• ADB Lending
• Denmark Provides New Fund
• New ERO Resident Director

December 2002 [ PDF: 658kb | 8 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• ADB Establishes Resident Mission in Afghanistan
• New Environment Policy
• ADB Loan to Afghanistan
• Gender Issues
• 4th Asia Development Forum
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2002

October 2002 [ PDF: 764kb | 8 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• Asia’s Economic Recovery to Strengthen in 2002–2003
• ADB President Visits the
• United Kingdom
• New Dean of Asian Development Bank Institute
• Population Trends
• ADB’s New Education Policy
• Rebuilding Afghanistan Education System
• ADB and The Netherlands Sign Accord

April 2002 [ PDF: 137kb | 8 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• ADB President Visits Three Countries in Europe
• ADB and NGOs Forge Closer Ties
• Danish Fund to Promote Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
• UK’s Grant to Viet Nam
• Volatility of the World Economy
• Fourth Asia Forum

December 2001 [ PDF: 1,299kb | 4 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• ADB/KfW Conference
• Promoting Social Protection
• ADB and WWF for Nature
• ADB Stepping up Assistance to Central Asia
• Health Service in Central Asia
• Asian Growth to fall
• Central Asia mothers lack what Europe takes for granted

September 2001 [ PDF: 663kb | 12 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• halting Asia's environmental decline
• G-7 hurries reform of development banking
• operations evaluation
• seeing the forest and the trees
• flooding in Bangladesh
• institutions for development
• conserving biodiversity

• output accomplishment and the logical framework
• institutional change in east Asia
• a note on land degradation
• ADB's 15-year plan for all-out assault on poverty
• the seventh ADB-OECD forum on Asian perspectives
• deforestation benefits
• private university will improve quality of higher education in Viet Nam

• opportunities for private environmental investment
• private financial organizations struggle to find green solutions
• ADB's new water policy adopts integrated water resource management approach
• ADB to provide immediate assistance to earthquake-devastated Gujarat, India
• Asia faces challenge of finding jobs for its youth
• ADB revamps political risk guarantee policy
• reading the future

• initiatives to bridge the digital divide
• e-Business: big business or bermuda triangle
• challenges to the international order
• a study of rural asia
• ERO and OECD development center launch joint publication

September 2000 [ PDF: 1,218kb | 12 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• President Chino's tour of Spain, France, and Germany
• the Sixth Annual International Forum on Asian Perspectives
• simplified procedures for procurement of goods and related services
• improving financial management and governance
• training for bureaucratic performance
• bank of the future

June 2000 [ PDF: 305kb | 12 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• fighting poverty in Asia
• the sixth ADB-OECD forum on Asian perspectives
• ADB's new strategy to promote private sector involvement
• Asia's water situation
• the Asian development outlook for 2000
• ERO missions to promote ADB interests

March 2000 [ PDF: 1,671kb | 8 pages ]

• President Chino's tour of Europe
• water and sanitation projects in Cambodian towns
• leveraging assistance for India's urban poor
• ADB's new resident mission in the People's Republic of China
• key topics at the Mekong ministers' meeting

December 1999 [ PDF: 1,299kb | 4 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• ADB's new strategy to rid Asia of poverty
• ADB-World Bank social forum in Manila
• the Greater Mekong subregion's landmark agreement to ease traffic
• ADB-FAO efforts to fight hunger

May 1999 [ PDF: 3,232kb | 4 pages ]

Overview of Contents:

• ADB's assistance to poor rural household in Pakistan
• ADB's health and nutrition programs for Indonesia's poor mothers and infants
• ADB's gender action plan.