Governance and public management

The pandemic has highlighted the need for a renewed focus on building critical infrastructure.

A Sustainable Recovery Depends on Quality Infrastructure Investment

COVID-19 has hit the entire globe at once, slowing investment in resilient infrastructure that will improve lives over the long term. Effective governance is critical to ensure infrastructure projects are well planned, funded, and implemented.

Bruno Carrasco, Hanif Rahemtulla, David Bloomgarden

A girl carrying vegetables to sell at the vegetable market in a rural area.

Accelerating Public Capital Investment to Reduce Nepal's Infrastructure Deficit

Public capital spending has been persistently weak in Nepal, and raising the amount and quality of capital expenditure required to close the infrastructure deficit is one of the country’s most pressing challenges.

Chandan Sapkota

ADB-AIESEC Partnership Empowers the SDG Generation

ADB and the world’s largest youth organization will work together together on the post-2015 development agenda.

Richeline Mascarinas

ADB’s Safeguards Policy Could be a Benchmark

Safeguards to avert damage that development projects can do to the environment and communities are essential in development finance.

Vinod Thomas

All Eyes on Astana for ADB’s Annual Meeting

With its stunning, modern architecture, crisp blue skies, and myriad influences, Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, provides a dramatic backdrop for ADB’s 47th Meeting of the Board of Governors that starts 2 May and concludes three days later.

Satinder Bindra

The successor to the Millennial Development Goals will have broad impacts on people in Asia and the Pacific. Photo: ADB

Asia and the Pacific's Priorities After 2015

What will the future for Asia and the Pacific look like - the region with the fastest economic growth and, at the same time, with the poorest people and the largest inequalities in the world – after 2015 and the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals?

Susann Roth