Poverty Reduction

Millennium Development Goals Update

Great strides in achieving MDGs in Asia-Pacific but levels of hunger and child and maternal mortality are still high, says joint ADB-UN report. The latest MDG update focuses on health outcomes in Asia and the Pacific. Read More

Working Out of Poverty

With the release of ADB’s Key Indicators for 2011, ADB’s Chief Economist Changyong Rhee discusses how having a higher level of quality employment will transform Asia. Watch Video

Social Inclusiveness in Asia's Emerging Middle Income Countries (MICs)

Income poverty remains widespread, and the social and environmental dimensions of vulnerability in MICs continue to pose major challenges on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals. ADB and partner organizations held a workshop on the social dimensions of inclusive growth in emerging MICs. Read More

Banking the Unbankable in PNG

ADB and the Government of Australia are supporting a new cofinanced project to help further expand access to financial services in rural communities in Papua New Guinea. This initiative is building on the experiences of a previous project that has helped thousands in the country’s most isolated regions. Read More

Poverty Reduction: Promoting Inclusive Pro-Poor Growth

Remarkable economic and social gains in Asia and the Pacific over the last few decades lifted millions from poverty but too many have been left behind. The region remains home to two-thirds of the world's poor, their ranks further deepened by loss of employment and reduced incomes from the 2008 global financial crisis.