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Featured Stories
Microcredit to End Poverty
Hope, confidence, progress, and peace of mind are just some of the benefits Bangladeshi women received from a rural livelihood project.
Freedom at the Frontier
Improved feeder roads in the highlands of Papua New Guinea are reducing the isolation of tribal communities in a valley that was hidden from the world until a few decades ago. Better access to markets, schools, and hospitals are giving subsistence farmers greater freedom of choice
Not Just Another Road Project
The ADB is partnering with the Government of Timor-Leste and the NGO CARE Australia on a road project that is empowering communities and generating jobs. It is a new approach that may pave the way for better road projects in Timor-Leste in the future
A Greener Way of Turning Trash Into Treasures
A new "green" waste collection center is helping improve the working conditions of waste pickers and recyclers in Manila's Smokey Mountain
Ordinary Capital Resources: Investing for Our Future
Since 1968, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), through its ordinary capital resources (OCR), has supported projects that have enabled a dynamic set of countries to build the right infrastructure and create the proper environment for development.
Asian Development Fund: Changing Lives
For more than three decades, the Asian Development Fund has been providing grants and low interest loans to help ADB's poorest borrowing countries to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor. On this site, we tell the stories of how ADF has changed lives in 13 borrowing countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Viet Nam and from Tajikistan to Papua New Guinea.
Indonesia Impact Stories
ADB and Indonesia have been partners since 1966. Indonesia is one of ADB’s largest clients, and its second largest recipient of technical assistance support. In this publication, we tell stories of how the ADB-Indonesia partnership has helped fulfill the vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty.
Pacific Impact Stories
Over the last 4 decades, ADB has been helping its Pacific developing member countries overcome common challenges in delivering sustained economic growth and human development, and in reducing poverty from small, narrowly focused economies. In this publication, we tell the stories of the people and places this partnership has helped.
Philippines Impact Stories
Over the last 4 decades, ADB has been helping the Philippine Government achieve its vision of a country free of poverty. In this publication, we tell the stories of the people and places this partnership has helped.
