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The Asian Development Bank: lending, the private sector and regional statistics
The Asian Development Bank is the region's own development bank. It lends to governments, invests in and lends to private companies, including financial institutions, and publishes statistics for the whole of Asia and the Pacific. This lesson explains how it is owned and funded, how large its operations are, how its private sector operations work, and which of its publications a lender can use.
Published 15 October 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- A regional bank owned by its members
- Two pools of money
- How large it is, and what cofinancing means
- Private sector operations: where lenders meet the bank
- Regional statistics a lender can use