Cities have always played a central role in economic development by bringing workers and entrepreneurs together, spurring innovation, and sharing resources, writes Rana Hasan with ADB’s economic research department. Read more
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Registration is now open for ADB's 53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, with the theme: “Asia 2020: Innovation, Inclusiveness, and Integration.”
This guide for ADB annual meeting participants provides useful arrangement details for the 53rd Annual Meeting in Incheon.
ADF provides grants to ADB's lower-income developing member countries. Established in 1974, the ADF initially provided loans on concessional terms. Activities supported by the ADF promote poverty reduction and improvements in the quality of life in the poorer countries of the Asia and Pacific region.
This edition focuses on how Asian Development Fund (ADF) grants are uplifting the lives of millions of the most vulnerable people in Asia and the Pacific.
The ADF-assisted Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project, has spurred a sharp rise in homestay and other tourism-based businesses in the southern part of Champasak Province, Lao PDR.
The influx of more than 700,000 people from Myanmar’s Rakhine State into Cox’s Bazar District in neighboring Bangladesh in August 2017 created a humanitarian crisis. Joining concerted international efforts, ADB quickly mobilized ADF grant funding of $100 million to help ensure this emergency situation did not escalate further.
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