ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
Vinod Thomas
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Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future
In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards.
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Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Intense climate-related natural disasters—floods, storms, as well as droughts and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide.
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Inspiring ADB's Future: Better Results in a Dynamic Region
ADB’s Strategy 2020 of inclusion, environmental sustainability, and regional integration matches Asia and the Pacific’s growing socio-economic challenges.
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Climate-Related Disasters in Asia and the Pacific
This paper considers three main disaster risk factors behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards.
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Development Imperatives for the Asian Century
Despite Asia’s remarkable economic success in the last half century, income inequality has worsened substantially and the region has become the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases.
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Independent Evaluation Awards ADB’s Most Successful Development Project
Three development projects that best showcased ADB's contribution to Asia and the Pacific were recognized at an awards ceremony.
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Environmental Sustainability at Risk from Global Economic Slowing
The uncertain global economic outlook threatens to undermine the resolve of Asian countries to implement needed investments and policies to put their economies on an environmentally sustainable growth path, warns a report by IED at ADB.
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Asian Economies Must Build Resilience to Growing Risks
Emerging risks and destabilizers as diverse as widening income inequality, slower growth, and climate change are reshaping Asia’s economic landscape at such a rapid pace says Independent Evaluation at ADB.
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Deeper Partnerships Can Help Asia Face New Challenges: Independent Evaluation
As Asia and the Pacific grapple with challenges in climate change, income inequality, and global economic slowdown, deeper development partnerships can offer new funds and ideas to help, says report from ADB's Independent Evaluation.
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Deepen Integration in Asia to Tackle Slowing Growth, Rising Inequality, and Climate Change
Countries in Asia and the Pacific have substantial untapped potential to expand regional cooperation and integration, says a new study from Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank.
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Heightened Development Challenges for Asia’s Poorer Countries
Asia’s poorest and most vulnerable countries have seen moderate rates of economic growth and poverty reduction over the last ten years, but they have not shared in Asia’s success story, says Independent Evaluation at ADB.
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Confront Climate Change to Make Growth More Inclusive – Independent Evaluation at ADB
Narrowing Asia’s widening inequality should therefore lead the region’s development efforts, and building resilience to climate change should anchor these efforts, says Independent Evaluation at ADB.
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Climate Change Heightens Pacific Islands’ Vulnerability
Geographical isolation, small populations, paucity of resources, and vulnerability to climate change—call for a different approach to development in the Pacific, says the report, ADB Support to Small Pacific Island Countries.
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ADB’s Social and Environmental Safeguards, with Improvements, can be a Benchmark
Effective safeguards to minimize damage that development projects can cause to communities and the environment are needed more than ever as new sources of international financing for infrastructure become available to emerging economies, says Independent Evaluation at ADB.
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New Study Underscores Disaster Prevention and Climate Action
Countries in Asia and the Pacific should ramp up preventive measures to avert disasters from floods, storms, droughts and heat waves, in addition to better measures in response to these events, says a new paper from Independent Evaluation at the ADB.