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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, [4] which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 1550, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offices around the world [5] to promote social and economic development in Asia.
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) is an Asian think tank focused on identifying effective development strategies for Asia and the Pacific, and on providing support to ADB member countries in managing development challenges. It was established in Tokyo in 1996 as a subsidiary of Asian Development Bank, with initial and subsequent ...
The Asian Development Outlook is an annual publication (available online and in print) produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It offers economic analysis and forecasts, as well as an examination of social development issues, for most countries in Asia. [1] It is published each March/April with an update published in September and brief ...
Princeton University (MPA) Masatsugu Asakawa (浅川 雅嗣, Asakawa Masatsugu, born 25 January 1958), a Japanese civil servant, is the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Asakawa, who took office on 17 January 2020, is the 10th president of ADB. [1] He was formerly special adviser to Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan, and to Taro ...
The Philippines is one of the first countries that joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1966. [1] According to the ADB, the Philippines has heavily relied on the ADB for development assistance, borrowing a total of $19.3 billion in the last decade. [2] [failed verification] The Philippines has been commended by the ADB for being a fast ...
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS) Harvard Kennedy School (MPA) Chantale Yokmin Wong is the current United States Director of the Asian Development Bank, with the rank of ambassador. Wong is the first out lesbian and the first out LGBTQ person of color to receive the rank of an ambassador. [1][2]
Groff was appointed as Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2011. [23] Previously, he served as Deputy Director for Development Cooperation at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and as Deputy Vice-President for Operations at the Washington-based Millennium Challenge Corporation. [24]
Website. avrdc.org. The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) (Chinese: 亞蔬—世界蔬菜中心), previously known as the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC), is an international, nonprofit institute for vegetable research and development. [2] It was founded in 1971 in Shanhua, southern Taiwan, by the Asian Development Bank ...