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Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) think so -- all recently revising upwards their growth forecasts for China, emerging markets and the world. Searching... ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... is scarier letting the market's imagination figure out the numbers. That other global institution -- the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - also made the news with its announcement that the value of world financial assets declined by more than US$50 trillion ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... This brings China's average growth rate for the first nine months of 2009 to 7.7 per cent, prompting the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to raise its full-year economic growth projection from 7.0 per cent to 8.2 per cent. The ADB expects China to deliver ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... day it will continue to move up. "All the data coming out is being upgraded, left, right and centre. "The Asian Development Bank has upgraded its forecast for Asia and India." Mr Potter said investors were turning away from the US dollar to commodities. ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... countries in a move that will help them and subsequently their neighbours, boost their investment markets. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $240 million in loans and grants to help Armenia, Georgia and Tajikistan - three of the worst hit ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Not to be outdone, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quickly added a negative sign to its 0.5 per cent world growth ...

Developing Asia worst hit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... slashed the value of financial assets worldwide by a massive US$50 trillion. According to a new study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), losses on financial assets in Asian developing economies cost $9.6 trillion - or just over one year's worth of ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... is scarier letting the market's imagination figure out the numbers. That other global institution -- the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - also made the news with its announcement that the value of world financial assets declined by more than US$50 trillion ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger, the Working Group, the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank, the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee and the World Bank Chief Economist's Advisory Council. Twice awarded the Sun Yefang ...

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... and technologies. The CDM fund will receive financial and advisory support from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Meanwhile, in June, Sri Lanka also announced its intention to create a CDM to finance its own projects on climate change.