Development bank needs to do more

A new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study warns that public ADB chief economist Changyong Rhee said: "Access to services such as clean water, sanitation, health care, and schooling is an essential ingredient of personal well-being, economic ...

Media reports indicate that Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide loan for the laying of 417 km long Indo-Myanmar Road and it would soon submit a field study report on the project to the central government. The entire stretch of the proposed ...

New Delhi, May 4 (IBNS) Following is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs speech at the Inaugural Session of the 46th AGM of the (ADB) on Saturday: On behalf of the Government and people of India, I warmly welcome you all to the 46th Annual ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakh delegation headed by the Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Yerbolat Dosayev (ADB Governor for the Republic of Kazakhstan) takes part in the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank in ...

Describing banking business as ‘difficult and cumbersome’ process, newly elected chief of Asian Development Bank Takehiko Nakao said on Thursday setting up of the proposed BRICS Bank would not be easy."Bank business is not so easy . . . But banking business is funding projects, financing resources and incremental lending, to safeguard policies and safeguard environment and to monitor repayment of loans. "So it is a very difficult, very cumbersome business," he said while ...

Standard Chartered Bank announced collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support the growth of the microfinance sector in Asia. This region-wide collaboration aims to improve access to financial services for the poor in ADB's developing member ...

May 15th, 2013 RusHydro secures USD 25 mn loan from Asian development bank for modernization of Armenia's Sevan-Hrazdan hydropower plants JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: MICEX-RTS, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces that it has provided the guarantee ...

Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) PRESS RELEASE Release Date : May 4, 2013 Statement by at the 46th Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank Fai-nan Perng Mr. Chairman, President Nakao, Fellow Governors, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf ...

Boss, we have a problem: The government-run Development Bank of the Philippines seems to be going out of kilter, appallingly lagging in profitability behind other banks, including another government bank, the Land Bank of the Philippines. Moreover, ...