The IMF, the World Bank and the ADB are working together closely in Indonesia.
The idea is simple, says ADB's Hamid: First, identify which cities are doing well.
My attitudes were not well formed because, to be honest, I hadn't thought much about the ADB.
Chino says the ADB is up to the challenges, though he worries that his staff is overworked.
But many wonder whether the ADB has the commitment, expertise and heart to really make a difference.
The ADB has warned before of the dangers of growth fuelled by natural bounty and cheap labour.
Crisis-related projects in Thailand and Indonesia are examples of the kind of work the ADB will be doing.
The question is whether an old institution like the ADB can reinvent itself to play this new role.
The ADB's figure for farming is not much higher, with only about 6% of Africa's cultivated land under irrigation.
There the ADB has made an even sharper cut in its forecast for 2012 growth, from 7% to 5.6%.
On April 7, the ADB forecast Chinese economic growth to end the year 9.6% higher than it did in 2010.
Asia's emerging economies will pick up in 2013 but the recovery will remain fragile, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
More "software" experts, including sociologists and anthropologists, are being recruited to join the ADB's 2, 000-strong staff, which includes about 650 executives.
With the government's approval, the ADB administered the scholarships directly, working with community groups and schools and bypassing the central bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, the ADB said South Asia's growth would rebound, with India's economy growing by 6% this year, up from 5% last year.
He worked six years with ADB doing company loans before Indonesia's Bakrie Group asked him to consolidate the group's financial services companies.
The ADB says only about 3% of Africa's hydropower potential is tapped.
The end result is yet another set of rules for importers to work out, says Jayant Menon, an economist for the ADB.
ECONOMIST: Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles
The ADB said countries in Asia must reduce their dependency on exports.
The ADB predicts disaster if the city's defences are not drastically improved.
ECONOMIST: The threat grows from rising water and sinking buildings
Definitely, the future of the Fund, the Bank, the ADB and other international institutions must not have to wait for America to say yes.
The new bank president is also determined to raise the ADB's profile, which has traditionally reflected its Japanese leadership's desire for anonymity and discretion.
The ADB's economists find that trade in parts is much less sensitive to changes in the real exchange rate than trade in finished products.
The ADB's participation in International Monetary Fund-led bailouts of Crisis-hit countries South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia has raised concerns about the state of its coffers.
"Deceleration in the region's two giants, the People's Republic of China and India, and in other major exporting economies is tempering earlier optimism, " the ADB said.
And yet, says Rajat Nag, the ADB's managing director, for the past 20-odd years a pan-Asian conversation about the benefits of deeper integration has only grown.
ECONOMIST: Regional economic integration has a long, long way to go
The ADB forecast China's economy would expand by 8.2% this year, up from 7.8% last year, on the back of strong domestic demand and better export performance.
But with those now pinched by the recession, and with foreign direct investment also down, the unthreatening overtures of the ADB may be the best near-term hope.
Myanmar will start clearing its debt owed to the World Bank and the ADB, with financing from a bridge loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
On the plus side, ADB said that China would be able to avoid a hard landing, given that policymakers in Beijing have considerable scope for further stimulus measures.
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