Friday, September 25th, 2015
Sept. 25, 2015—Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao today announced that ADB will double its annual climate financing to $6 billion by 2020, up from the current $3 billion. ADB's spending on tackling climate change will...
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan are to help developing countries in Asia and the Pacific tap the latest technologies, including satellite maps, to help them prepare and respond more effectively and quickly to natural disasters.
...Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
The Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP), Thiruvananthapuram is recruiting candidates to various posts. Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project is a Asian Development Bank (ADB) assisted project. It covers five municipal corporations in Kerala: Kochi, Kollam, Kozhikode,...
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
The size of the infrastructure challenge across Asia is daunting. A 2009 Asian Development Bank Institute study showed that between 2010 and 2020 Asia needs to invest about US$8 trillion — or US$750 billion per year —...
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is investing in technology and mitigation efforts to help address the disruptions and impacts of natural disaster across the region. The ADB also helps track the impacts of disasters, such as the...
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
A study released today from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the United Nations Environment Programme points to the potential for...
Monday, September 19th, 2011
More than 30 million people were displaced last year by environmental and weather-related disasters across Asia, experts have warned, and the problem is only likely to grow worse as climate change exacerbates such problems. Such people are...
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
The Asian Development Bank and the Bangladesh Government signed an agreement early this week for a US$25 million soft loan that aims to introduce the online filing of tax returns and digitised management of land records in...
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The Asian Development Bank is charting out a 10-year urban development road map for Assam for the benefit of the underprivileged sections. A source said the state government had informed the ADB that it was planning to...
