Policy

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), and the Center for Excellence in Financial Inclusion (CEFI) today officially launched a Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Policy...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a $95 million private sector loan with Jiangsu Lihua Animal Husbandry Stock Company (Lihua) to develop inclusive and sustainable livestock farming in the People’s Republic of China...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the City Bank Limited today signed a loan agreement for $5 million to support import and export financing for Bangladeshi businesses. Under the agreement, ADB’s Trade Finance Program...

News Hour: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Counselor Thomas H. Staal will travel to Geneva, Switzerland April 24-26. Counselor Staal will lead the U.S. delegation at the High Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Response...

News Hour: The seven member countries of the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) today launched the SASEC Vision, a new strategic roadmap to guide the subregion’s development through 2025. The SASEC Vision was announced at...

News Hour: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is joining forces with the Wilson Center to provide extensive data on women’s leadership in public administration for The Center’s Women in Public Service Project. By collecting, analyzing,...

News Hour: In Moldova, the time spent by companies dealing with regulatory authorities decreased in 2016, after a decade of no meaningful change, according to the Cost of Doing Business 2016 survey, released today by the...

News Hour: Bangladesh’ remarkable progress over the last 40 years in reducing poverty and improving lives can offer valuable lessons for achieving inclusive and sustainable development globally. Said Dr Mushtaque Chowdhury, Vice-Chair of BRAC, at an...

News Hour: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao met with the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, and expressed his confidence in the country’s economic prospects. He reiterated support for the government’s efforts to foster inclusive...

News Hour: On the occasion of the Global Fund’s Fifth Replenishment launch, Friends of The Global Fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria organized a get together for civil society, diplomatic and private sector leaders for an...