Bangladesh and ADB

The country operations business plan (COBP), 2020–2022 updates the COBP, 2019–2021, in alignment with the government’s Seventh Five-Year Plan and with Strategy 2030 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The country operations business plan (COBP), 2019–2021 for Bangladesh updates COBP, 2018–2020. It is consistent with the strategic priorities of the ADB country partnership strategy, 2016–2020 for Bangladesh, the government’s Seventh Five-Year Plan (FY2016–FY2020), and ADB’s Strategy 2030. The COBP focuses on the country partnership strategy’s five priority investment areas: (i) easing infrastructure constraints, (ii) improving human capital, (iii) promoting economic corridor development, (iv) improving rural livelihoods, and (v) providing climate- and disaster-resilient infrastructure and

This report presents an ADB-commissioned study to form the gender strategy of Bangladesh through the gender diagnostic of the sectors of urban development, transport, energy, and education.

The country operations business plan (COBP), 2018–2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Bangladesh focuses on the country partnership strategy’s five priority investment areas: (i) easing infrastructure constraints, (ii) improving human capital, (iii) promoting economic corridor development, (iv) improving rural livelihoods, and (v) providing climate and disaster resilient infrastructure and services.

The country operations business plan (COBP), 2017–2019 updates the Bangladesh COBP, 2016–2018, aligning it closely with strategic priorities of the Bangladesh country partnership strategy (CPS), 2016–2020.

To implement the designation of eligible Asian Development Fund (ADF) loans as concessional ordinary capital resources (OCR) loans following the approval of the ADF-OCR merger by ADB's Board of Governors, it is necessary to amend the respective Legal Agreements.

This letter agreement effective 1 January 2017 applies to the ADF loans made by ADB to Bangladesh, as referred to in this document dated 3 October 2016.

This Country Partnership Strategy defines ADB's strategic approach in Bangladesh for 2016–2020.

এই সহযোগিতা কৌশলপত্র ২০১৬-২০২০ সালের জন্য বাংলাদেশে এডিবি'র কৌশলগত দিকনির্দেশনা।

The Bangladesh Quarterly Economic Update provides analysis and data about the economy in Bangladesh. In this issue, it features two special topics: private investment, and employment and the labor market.

The regional cooperation operations business plan (RCOBP), 2016–2018 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) updates the RCOBP, 2015–2017. The proposed regional operations for 2016-2018 are consistent with the priorities of the regional cooperation strategy (RCS), 2011-2015. Thus, while the new RCOBP falls outside the time frame of the RCS 2011-2015, it is the fifth RCOBP in support of the current RCS.