4. Summary Information
• Founded in 1966
• It works like the World Bank
• Improve people’s live in Asia and the Pacific
• Want to alleviate poverty
• http://www.adb.org/about/overview
5. Summary Info cont.
Want to do this through
• Investment in infrastructure,
• Health care services,
• Public administration systems, and
• Help nations prepare for climate change.
• http://www.adb.org/about/overview
7. Why?
• Want to take away many of the pollution in
Asia(especially China) and also the poverty
• Want to make society better as a whole and
that it can be balanced and in peace
http://www.adb.org/about/o
verview
8. Main Devices for Assistance
• Loans
• Grants
• Policy Dialogue
• Technical Assistance
• Equity Investments
• http://www.adb.org/about/overview
10. Who works here?
• Economists
• Sociologists
• Engineers
• Gender Experts
• Environmental Scientists
– Just main of hundreds of professions
– http://www.adb.org/about/overview
11. Video
• Report Release: Economics of Reducing
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South Asia
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HwpMjV
Of98&feature=c4-overview-
vl&list=PLAB2BA4D8A7FC7843
12. Article
• ADB cuts growth forecasts for developing Asia,
sees benign prices
• http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/16/asia
-economy-adb-idINDEE96F00D20130716
13. Is it an NGO?
• The ADB would not be considered an NGO
because it is a bank that funds money and also
loans.
• It is like the World Bank, but specifically for
Asia
