The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided in 2007 a project preparatory technical assistance to prepare the Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project. In 2009, the ADB Board of Directors approved a 32-year, $72 million equivalent Asian Development Fund loan and a $2 million Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) grant to the Government of Viet Nam to implement the $117.9 million project to contribute to sustainable socioeconomic development of Thanh Hoa through a multisector project.

In October 2009, the government requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for support to facilitate an affordable and sustainable water and sewerage service.The Water Sector Improvement Program was subsequently discussed and agreed in May 2010. The policy-based lending modality of ADB was used to align with the government’s urgent development needs.

The 2018 Annual Evaluation Review (AER) adds new perspectives to the development effectiveness discussion in two areas. First, it introduces a new section on ADB’s development results by distilling key findings from its high-level evaluations to analyze changes that have taken place due to ADB’s interventions, particularly achievements in the institution’s strategic agendas, drivers of growth, and country programs.

The learning event, Advancing South–South Knowledge Sharing in Asia, will be held on 4 July 2018 in Seoul, Republic of Korea, to enhance and and broaden knowledge sharing on sources of development in Asia and the Pacific.

The 2018 Evaluation Week will be held on 10–14 September in Chengdu, People's Republic of China with theme, "Making Evaluation Work at the Country Level."

In December 2017, Ms Alena SCHILLEROVÁ was appointed as Minister of Finance. She was subsequently appointed as EIB Governor for the Czech Republic in March 2018, succeeding Mr Ivan PILNÝ.From January 2016 to December 2017, Ms SCHILLEROVÁ was serving as Deputy Minister of ...

The Asia and the Pacific region is transitioning from largely agrarian and rural economies to increasingly nonagricultural and urban economies, and from subsistence to commercial agriculture. However, because Asia is home to most of the world’s hungry and most of the poor still live in rural areas and are engaged with agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods, agriculture and rural development remains a cornerstone as countries make this transition.