Features

Blueprint for a Stable Rice Market

ASEAN nations can help avoid world rice price shocks by reducing export restrictions, placing less emphasis on self-sufficiency, retooling Thailand's rice pledging program, and expanding coordinated rice policies with India and Pakistan, according to a series of working papers from ADB.


Network Rollout Puts a Nation in Touch

After a long wait, telecommunications services are becoming available to even the remotest regions in Papua New Guinea, supported by a private-sector loan project.


12 Things to Know in 2012: Health in the Pacific

Good health is a prerequisite to development - healthy people help communities grow and economies prosper. Here are 12 facts about the state of health in Pacific Island countries and why they are major concerns for ADB.


NGOs Provide Better Health Care Services in Papua New Guinea

To help the Government of PNG improve its rural health services, ADB has approved a loan amounting to $20 million for $81.2 million Rural Primary Health Services Delivery Project.


Fiscal Discipline Can Help the Pacific Navigate Global Financial Instability

Pacific economies’ progress in fiscal consolidation is commendable but the ongoing Eurozone Crisis underscores the need to sustain these efforts, says ADB’s new Pacific Economic Monitor.


Coral Triangle - The Amazon of the Seas - is at Risk

ADB is playing a key role to save one of the world's most diverse and threatened marine ecosystems.


Banking the Unbankable in PNG

A bank focused on the needs of the poor is changing the way people save money in Papua New Guinea.


Microfinance to the Rescue

People on Papua New Guinea’s remote Manam Island and Madang Province are rebuilding after a disastrous volcanic eruption thanks to better banking solutions.


Participating in HIV and AIDS Prevention

Innovative partnerships to combat the spread of HIV infection in Papua New Guinea are tackling a lack of provincial capacity as well as risky behaviors and gender inequality.


Freedom at the Frontier

Improved roads in Papua New Guinea provide better access to markets, schools, and hospitals for communities hidden from the world until a few decades ago.