ADB backs first climate bond in Asia

Bank will provide credit-enhancement and loan to bonds issued by Philippine company

Time to redraw the global poverty line

It must reflect new realities of food inflation, climate change impacts

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

In the dark

Climate change will make energy a vulnerable sector and hit power generation

$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB

Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit

Price of food inflation

In near future the impact of high food price will show in terms of more malnourished

Waste-to-energy plant loses aid

ADB withdraws Rs 10 crore

Health millennium goals neglected in Asia-Pacific region: UN report

3 million children below five died in 2010 alone

Bhattarai's power trip

Power, investments to be highlights of Nepal prime minister's first India visit

Private desires, public fears

Asian Development Bank’s new plan insists on the private sector answer to water woes

Monsoon stretching longer, displacing more people in south Asia: Report

Disasters displaced some 61.4 million people in south Asia in 2010-2021, according to IDMC and ADB report

COVID-19: Asia-Pacific region lost 8% of working hours in 2020, says report

The pandemic pushed 75-80 million people in developing Asia-Pacific region into extreme poverty in 2020

'Transition to low-carbon economy will benefit Asia'

The adaptation should begin from the energy sector, which contributes two-thirds of Asia's emissions, the Asian Development Bank says 

Disaster resilience in risk-prone Asia needs realistic policy and financial planning

Developing Asian nations must prioritise on building resilience strategy before such disasters strike, says ADB report

No way of knowing progress of 74% gender-related SDGs

Data is available on only 26 per cent of 85 gender indicators, says the first review of the status of women and girls in the Asia Pacific

Why the proposed Silver Line rail project in Kerala is a non-starter

The project is not economically viable; it will also have social and environmental impacts; instead, the government should look at possible …

India’s second COVID-19 wave could put its economic recovery at risk: ADB

Leading financial institution Asian Development Bank warns that while Asia-Pacific is recovering, the surge in India could halt any progress made

Tax hike on cigarettes can prevent four million deaths in India: report

ADB report points out that the amount of money spent by the poorest 10 million male smokers on cigarettes a day can actually help them buy 1,400 …

Reforming global governance institutions the Indian way

Multilateralism has not failed; it is the governments of nation states that have miserably failed to carry out the ethos of multilateralism.

Dream stuck in pipeline

The Melamchi project promised to end Kathmandu’s acute water shortage. But 15 years later, it is nowhere near completion

Asia, Pacific consuming natural resources too fast

WWF-ADB report recommends green growth and protection of terrestrial and marine environments

The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

Development banks, industry say they are climate ready

Multilateral development banks reaffirm their pledge to boost climate financing ahead of Ban Ki-moon’s Climate Summit; a report says big …

ADB’s flawed water programme promotes scarcity

As the annual meet of the board of governors of Asian Development Bank gets under way near Delhi, a critique of the bank’s approach to …

Tata Mundra power project blamed for falling fish catch

Project yet to become fully functional has already destroyed creeks and mangroves, says report