The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was founded in 1966 to alleviate poverty in Asia and the Pacific through investments in infrastructure, healthcare, public administration, and climate change preparation. It works similarly to the World Bank by providing loans, grants, technical assistance, and policy dialogue to its developing member countries. The ADB employs economists, sociologists, engineers, and environmental scientists to help improve people's lives and promote sustainable economic growth across Asia.

1. ADB
Eduardo Montealegre

2. What does it mean?
• Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org/about/overview

3. http://www.adb.org/about/overview

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

6. http://www.embassyofcambodia.org.nz/October12009/Oct
ober12009.htm

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

9. http://topnews.in/companies/adb

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