(14 May 2008) - Even poor countries can afford basic social protection like financing health care, cash transfers to the poor, and elderly and child protection. Read the full story
(9 May 2008) - High oil prices are already a concern in the Pacific region, but the recent surge in world food prices has yet to be fully felt in the Pacific, according to a new Asian Development Bank study, 'Living with High Prices'. Read the full story
(6 May 2008) - ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda announced $500 million in immediate budgetary support to tackle rising food costs in Asia-Pacific region and pledged to double lending to $2 billion for agriculture in 2009. Read the full story
(6 May 2008) - ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda has expressed his sincere condolences to the people of Myanmar in the wake of the recent cyclone. Read the full story
(5 May 2008) - ADB is establishing a new fund to slow the onset of climate change and to help the Asia-Pacific region adapt to the expected devastating impact of global warming. Read the full story
When Vang Thi Bich and her family were relocated to the Huoi Long resettlement site in Lai Chau province in Viet Nam in 2005 to make way for the Son La hydropower project, much of their way of life changed. Read the full story
In late 1999, the Asian Development Bank and the People's Republic of China embarked on a massive $183 million program to improve the environment in three highly polluted cities in the nation's leading coal-producing province of Shanxi. Read the full story
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