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The U.S. Commercial Service Liaison Office to the Asian Development Bank, managed by the Advocacy Center, maintains this website to assist U.S. firms interested in pursuing business opportunities generated by the lending and grant activities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This website will provide you with:

News and Features

ADB Announces Massive Financial Support for Food Crisis

ADB's 41st Annual Meeting closed in Madrid with President Haruhiko Kuroda announcing $500 million immediate support to deal with rising food costs in Asia and the Pacific and $2 billion in agriculture lending for 2009.  Read more.

May 2008 Monthly Alerts Released

The International Market Insights (IMIs) report covers 28 new and proposed projects and TA programs published by ADB online - amounting to $513 million-worth of opportunities.

Additionally, the Foreign Government Tenders (FGTs) report comprises 29 procurement alerts mostly coming from the energy sector and transport sector. Other sectors included are education, environment, industry and finance, and urban development. Papua New Guinea's Road Maintenance Upgrading Project has the most number of procurement notices for civil works.

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ADB Launches Long-Term Strategy

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched Strategy 2020, a new long-term strategy for its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty.

To fight poverty in a region of more than 600 million poor people surviving on $1 a day, Strategy 2020 will refocus ADB operations on three development agendas—inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. Read more.

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