Bangladesh and ADB

In the Spotlight

Article | 8 February 2021
Asian Development Bank and World Bank join forces for a resilient recovery in South Asia
As a response to COVID-19, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank Group are coordinating more than $15.4 billion in wide-ranging lending programs in South Asia.
Op-Ed / Opinion | 11 January 2021
Priorities in the Post COVID-19 Era - Manmohan Parkash
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caught almost every country off-guard, requiring painful adjustments to the new reality.
ADBI Video | 7 January 2021
Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure
Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure offers valuable guidance for policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and others interested in Asian infrastructure growth and related social protection needs of vulnerable communities.

Asian Development Blog | 19 February 2021
An innovative girls’ scholarship program in Bangladesh provides school re-opening lessons
Bangladesh not only kept girls in school but improved their lives on multiple levels with a simple, low-cost stipend program. It offers valuable insights for school systems around the world struggling with the pandemic.

Data: Bangladesh ADB and Bangladesh: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in Bangladesh

Development indicators for Bangladesh, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations, 2010-2018

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Bangladesh: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Bangladesh

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 10 February 2020
Emergency Assistance in Bangladesh
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.
Project Result / Case Study | 8 November 2018
Bangladesh: Throwing a Lifeline to Small Businesses
A partnership between Bangladesh and ADB provided loans to rural and women-owned businesses that struggled to access the credit needed to expand their operations.
Project Result / Case Study | 19 December 2017
Cassava Recipe for Farming Success in Bangladesh
ADB's partnership with food company PRAN-RFL helps expand contract farming, make cassava an attractive crop, and build the agribusiness sector.