Affordable housing is a major development challenge across Asia and the Pacific. Large numbers of households continue to live in informal, overcrowded, unsafe, or climate-vulnerable conditions, often ...

ADB President Masato Kanda met Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at Malacañan Palace and said ADB is ready to provide up to $1.75 billion in additional financing to support the Philippines ...

ADB and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have collaborated to support Pakistan’s first issuance of a Panda bond to finance its Sustainable and Green Infrastructure Project.

ADB has signed a $40 million loan with Arkas Holding to improve the capacity and sustainability of maritime logistics and infrastructure in Türkiye. The investment marks ADB’s first private sector ...

Japan will host ADB's 60th Annual Meeting in Aichi-Nagoya from 2 to 5 May 2027. The event will mark ADB’s 60th anniversary ...

ADB has announced it will mobilize $30 billion by 2030 to help the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) advance long-term development priorities and withstand external shocks. ADB President ...

This brief focuses on the key challenges surrounding female labor force participation in Sri Lanka. It also synthesizes recommendations from an ADB study that examined social, economic, and ...

The Seismic Safety Improvement Program (SSIP) in Armenia is strengthening school safety and reducing earthquake risk by ...

Food and water security depend on healthy, connected ecosystems—from glaciers and mountains to rivers and deltas. This session highlights landscape approaches that strengthen shared-resource ...

This parallax video explores the increasingly complex and cross-border challenges reshaping economies, communities, and ...

As Asia accelerates decarbonization, could a cross-border “super grid” become the backbone of a cleaner, more secure energy future? Hosted by the Financial Times, this discussion looks at what it ...

It summarizes underlying factors that can explain Asia’s development performance, as well as the large variations across the region and time periods. In particular, the book focuses on the role of ...