ADB backs first climate bond in Asia

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

Equitable water for all

ADB takes first step to spur private investments through equities

Private desires, public fears

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

ADB averse to sharing information

Governments should give information, says bank

व्यापार के लिए चाहिए 1.5 लाख करोड़ डॉलर, वर्ना नौकरियों पर है खतरा: एडीबी

एडीबी के अध्ययन में यह बात सामने आई है कि छोटे और महिला क�…

Ask no questions, just pay the water bill

'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

Time to redraw the global poverty line

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

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

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

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 …

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

Letters

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 …

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