East Asia's enormous infrastructure needs - an estimated US$1 trillion over the next five years - can be met in part by using some of the region's vast financial reserves for investments at home, Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) DB Vice President Liqun Jin told the Mekong Development Forum today.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help prepare a renewable power sector development project for Fiji Islands through a US$650,000 technical assistance (TA) grant.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) has approved an US$800,000 contribution to support the operations of the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre over the next three years.
Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help to provide insurance products to poorer households in Sri Lanka through a US$600,000 technical assistance (TA) grant from its Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund, financed by the Government of the United Kingdom.
In a major first in poverty reduction efforts in the People's Republic of China (PRC), nongovernment organizations (NGOs) have been competitively selected to serve as partners in state-funded poverty work.
Asian Development Bank's (ASX: ATB) Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) will study how to facilitate more effective economic cooperation and integration between developing countries in East and South Asia.
A US$5 million technical assistance loan from Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) will help create nonfarming jobs in rural areas of Pakistan.
