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News Release | 6 July 2022
Southeast Asia Green Recovery Can Create More Than 30 Million Jobs by 2030 — ADB
A green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia has the potential to create $172 billion in investment opportunities annually and generate more than 30 million jobs by 2030, according to a new ADB report.
Event | 21 June 2022
AASCTF Smart City Networking Days 2022
This is the first networking event of the ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund, and it aims to share ideas, approaches, digital solutions, and lessons learned from AASCTF's ongoing smart city pilot projects.
News Release | 9 June 2022
ADB Approves Project Financing for South Commuter Railway Project in the Philippines
The South Commuter Railway will offer commuters fast public transport, help to ease road traffic congestion, and contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Philippines’ climate change agenda.

Asian Development Blog | 29 June 2022
Millions Are Going Hungry in Post-Pandemic Asia: Here’s How to Respond
The pandemic has increased malnutrition rates in many parts of Asia and the Pacific. Direct food assistance to the poor and programs that benefit farmers are being used to address the problem.

South Commuter Railway Project

Once completed, the South Commuter Railway—a section of the North-South Commuter Railway—will offer commuters fast public transport, help to ease road traffic congestion, and contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Philippines’ climate agenda.

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Data: Philippines ADB and the Philippines: 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 the Philippines

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

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

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 and Supply Chain Finance Program.

Philippines: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in the Philippines

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 16 February 2021
ADB-funded livelihood program helps lift households out of extreme poverty in the Philippines
ADB and other partners launched a project in the Philippines using the graduation approach to provide poor and vulnerable households in Negros Occidental province with livelihoods.
Project Result / Case Study | 9 October 2019
Testing Fintech Bank Solutions in the Philippines
ADB pilot project with the Philippines’ Cantilan Bank tests cloud-based banking.
Project Result / Case Study | 27 November 2017
Capital Market Reforms to Help Fund Philippines’ Infrastructure Ambition
Philippine reforms aim to increase interest and participation in the domestic capital market to mobilize funds for infrastructure investment.