ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated to reducing poverty in the Asia and Pacific region through pro-poor sustainable economic growth, social development, and good governance. Established in 1966, it is owned by 64 members - 46 from the region. 
A US$200 million ADB loan will support the second part of Indonesia's Development Policy Support Program (DPSP), a series of reforms that underpin key priorities of the Government's medium-term growth and poverty reduction program.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) is providing a loan and grant package totaling US$21.56 million to help the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) expand access to and improve the quality of education, particularly at lower secondary level.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help improve the living standards of the rural population of Uttaranchal through a 10-year program of investments amounting to US$550 million to upgrade the Indian state's roads.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) is launching an innovative Water Financing Partnership Facility aiming to raise $100 million in support of its water financing program by 2008.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help clean up the environment of the city of Nanjing, the People's Republic of China (PRC), through a US$100 million loan for a project to manage and protect the city's water resources.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) is backing a project to tap Tajikistan's power surplus to meet shortfalls in neighboring Afghanistan through loans to the two countries totaling US$56.5 million.
Some US$2.7 million in grants will provide technical support to the Government of Afghanistan in creating a National Development Strategy.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help improve management of Punjab's (a province of Pakistan) water resources and increase productivity of the province's irrigated agriculture through a multitranche financing facility of up to US$900 million.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) is supporting the Pakistan Government's program to remove transmission bottlenecks to power delivery through a multitranche financing facility amounting to US$800 million.
A US$300 million loan will help develop an efficient, safe, and reliable road transport system to promote sustainable economic growth in the southern part of Gansu province in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
