Impact Stories

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.

A Lao PDR village with an ancient connection to the forest learns to preserve rather than destroy

Mending a highway and slashing bureaucracy jumpstarts trade through once-sleepy provinces

ADB's pilot wind power project brings inclusive and sustainable growth in poor rural areas suffering from acute energy shortage.

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.

ADB's Facility for Pilot and Demonstration Activity (PDA) has become a source of innovation and inspiration for many countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific to improve the delivery of water services and the management of water resources.

As ADB gears up to celebrate International Anticorruption Day on 9 December with "iACT" being launched as the focal theme this year, Peter Pedersen, Office of Anticorruption and Integrity (OAI) Head, shares his thoughts on ADB's anticorruption efforts.

An extended global economic slowdown could weigh heavy on East Asia’s economies next year, unless policymakers act promptly, decisively and collectively, according to ADB’s latest Asia Economic Monitor.

The floods and Cyclone Sidr of 2007 impacted the lives of some 25 million people. But an extensive rehabilitation and reconstruction program helped them to recover and resume their normal economic and social activities.

A simple feed innovation for cattle is bringing modest prosperity to rural villages - and women are leading the way.