Country director Puto Kamayana says the Asian Development Bank is helping build roads, power plants,railways and irrigation systems, like this one in Kampong Thom province.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

But this latest financial crisis has wreaked havoc on economies worldwide including in France, where the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that is unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Lake is one of 200 scholars, government officials, civil society workers and development partners in Dakar this week for a conference organized by the UN Girls' Education Initiative, an international partnership aimed at achieving gender equality and universal primary school education by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19