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4 unusual facts about Asian Development Bank


Asian Development Bank

Oxfam Australia has criticized the Asian Development Bank of insensitivity to local communities.

Electric trike

The Asian Development Bank, with the Philippine government and the Department of Energy, hopes to transform the public transportation sector by widely adopting electric tricycles throughout the Philippines.

Linda Duncan

Through projects by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank she helped establish environmental law enforcement systems in Jamaica, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.

Sili, Samoa

The hydro project had received backing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which had been assisting the Samoan government and its Electric Power Corporation (EPC) to make high priority investment in renewable energy project.


Ainun Nishat

Besides working at various projects of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in Bangladesh, Malaysia and Philippines, he was a member of the Panel of Experts who consulted the construction of the Jamuna Bridge, the longest bridge in Bangladesh.

Cao Lãnh Bridge

The project is being developed with the financial assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Australia.

Century Properties

Since its founding, CPMI has handled 43 buildings, including landmarks such as the Asian Development Bank, Philippine National Bank Headquarters, BPI Buendia Center and Pacific Star Building.

Dante Canlas

Dr. Canlas was also the Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, and the Philippines from 2003 to 2004.

GMS Environment Operations Center

EOC will also act as a secretariatto the Working Group on Environment (WGE), taking over the support functions, such as organizing and holding WGE meetings, coordinating WGE activities, reporting to the WGE, and other tasks which were previously carried out by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Institute of Engineering

The Eastern Region Campus in Dharan, which began operating from 1984, was built with the financial assistance from Asian Development Bank and the technical assistance from the UK.

Institute of Rural Management, Pakistan

This include providing institutional building services to organizations including Khushali Bank, World Bank and Asian Development Bank, International Labor Organization, Punjab Rural Support Programme, Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara, Sindh Rural Support Organization, DTCE – Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment, Human Resource Development Network, United Nations Development Programme, South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme and National Bank of Pakistan.

Masihur Rahman

During his career, he held many important government offices and represented the government at the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the Islamic Development Bank.

Rehabilitation of the Pasig River

The Asian Development Bank gave the government of the Philippines a loan of $200 million to implement a 15-year slum upgrade program for Metro Manila which includes the rehabilitation of the Pasig River.

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Dr. Hanifi is serving as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for The Afghan Diaspora Remittance Project, a project funded by the Asian Development Bank and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.

Stijn Claessens

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (member Advisory Group Debt Relief Study)

Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish

In 2010 Al-Herbish oversaw partnership agreements with the World Bank Group, the Andean Development Corporation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development and, in May 2011, with the Asian Development Bank.


see also

Iqbal Quadir

Quadir's vision of a large-scale commercial project led him to organize a global consortium involving Telenor, Norway’s leading telecommunications company; an affiliate of micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize); Marubeni Corp. in Japan; Asian Development Bank in the Philippines; Commonwealth Development Corp. in the United Kingdom; and International Finance Corp. and Gonofone in the United States.

Lopburi Solar Farm

The plant was constructed over a period of 18 months with a loan of US$70 million (฿2 billion) from the Asian Development Bank, and is expected to generate 105 GWh/year.