Regional : Asian Development Outlook and Asian Development Policy Report, 2025 (ADB-58453-002)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Afghanistan
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Brunei
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Cook Islands
  • Fiji
  • Georgia
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Niue
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Turkiye
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vietnam
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Jun 3, 2025
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Regional - Asian Development Bank
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Law and Government
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 1.50 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 1.50 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ ADB website

Updated in EWS Nov 7, 2025

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the TA subproject will support the production of the ADO 2025, and ADPR 2025 two of ADB's major publications. It will support the following activities: (i) preparing background analytical papers following the 2-year rolling research plan, (ii) further developing and refining analytical methods, (iii) drafting of ADO content, (iv) editing economic content and manuscripts, (v) preparing and laying out of materials for publication, and (vi) disseminating key results and policy messages.

Policymakers in ADB's developing member countries (DMCs) have been tested by some serious new challenges since 2019. In 2020, the coronavirus disease pandemic caused the region's first contraction in gross domestic product in 6 decades. Shrinking revenues and higher spending on safety nets worsened fiscal deficits and public debt, limiting investment capacity. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which drove up energy and food prices, increased inflation, and slowed poverty reduction, disrupted recovery efforts in developing Asia. As these shocks subsided, trade, geopolitical, and economic tensions intensified, posing new challenges. New rounds of tariff increases by the United States announced on 2 April 2025 could increase global fracturing. Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere could disrupt supply chains. Threats from climate change continue to grow: rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and sea level rise could cause economic losses of up to 24% across Asia and the Pacific by 2100, with higher losses in Southeast Asia and India. Even technological advancements, which will continue to drive growth, present risks such as workforce displacement and a growing digital divide.

Limited capacity and knowledge gaps in many DMCs complicate efforts to address these immediate and long-term challenges. Robust, timely research and analyses are required to support effective policymaking and tackle inequality, climate change, and social protection.The TA cluster will contribute timely research and analyses to address knowledge gaps in the region.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

According to the Technical Assistance Report, the Risk Categories are:

Environment: Not Applicable
Involuntary Resettlement: Not Applicable
Indigenous Peoples: Not Applicable

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

The TA cluster subproject financing amount is $1,500,000, which will be financed on a grant basis by ADB’s Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF-8 for $750,000 and TASF-other sources for $750,000).


Contact Information
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Project Officer: Abdul Abiad
Designation: Deputy Chief Economist - Asian Development Bank
Email: aabiad@adb.org

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