Wonderful to spend time with EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso and Minister of Finance of Georgia Lasha Khutsishvili 🇬🇪 in Washington, DC.

We discussed the economic prospects for our regions and the importance of addressing climate change and other risks to development, including

Good to meet U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Podesta in Washington DC.

I appreciate Envoy Podesta's shared recognition of the grave threat climate change poses to development and his conviction that we must press ahead with solutions, policies, and financing

Today I marked the strong ongoing partnership between ADB and OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives with Secretary General Mathias Cormann. We agreed to deepen our collaboration in support of development in Asia and the Pacific.

I have a long history with OECD and appreciate this important relationship. I look

Pleased to join my fellow MDB heads at Center for Global Development today for a meeting with the G20 Independent Experts Group.

This was an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas on our efforts to evolve multilateral development banks to meet the scale and complexity of the development needs in the

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A productive meeting. I thanked Secretary Janet Yellen for her leadership on the MDB evolution agenda and welcomed her reflections on the progress we have made to support development in Asia and the Pacific.

Our strong and shared interest in supporting increased financing from MDBs,

Looking forward to the week ahead in Washington DC, where I will participate in the IMF-World Bank 2024 Spring Meetings and discuss with partners how we can turn our continued evolution into action to support strong and lasting development.

The unrelenting challenge of climate

Great to catch up with Cindy McCain Cindy McCain at Asian Development Bank today.

Food security remains a serious challenge in Asia and Pacific. Climate change, nature loss, economic shocks and malnutrition all put enormous pressure on Asia’s vulnerable and fragile food systems.

We discussed

Enjoyed a productive discussion with Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Lawrence Wong on the sidelines of the ASEAN Meetings in the Lao PDR this week.

I expressed my sincere appreciation for the excellent partnership between ADB and Singapore over the last

It was an honor to take part in the ASEAN Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting with International Finance Institutions, chaired by our hosts, the Lao PDR. Along with my colleagues from AMRO, IMF, and the World Bank, we discussed how ASEAN has been hard hit by

In Luang Prabang, the Lao PDR, for ASEAN meetings, I took the opportunity to view ADB initiatives in the area, including projects to promote sustainable tourism to generate jobs and incomes.

Among the sites I visited were the Kuang Si Waterfall. Surrounded by a protected

Pleased to meet with Malaysia's Finance Minister II Seri Amir Hamzah bin Azizan on the sidelines of the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Luang Prabang, the Lao PDR.

I expressed my gratitude for Malaysia’s continued partnership with ADB in working

Delighted to announce this important new initiative to tackle climate change at the High-Level Policy Dialogue of the ASEAN Ministers of Finance in Luang Prabang yesterday.

The ASEAN Climate Finance Policy Platform will strengthen economic and fiscal policies for climate action

It is a pleasure to be in the ancient city of Luang Prabang in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting.

Yesterday I met with the Lao PDR Minister of Finance and ADB Governor Santiphab Phomvihane, who is chairing

I end my visit to the PRC with a renewed belief that development cannot stand still: it requires us to evolve to face the realities in front of us.
 
We must accelerate a green transition that mitigates and builds resilience against the current and fast-approaching impacts of

I saw ecological management and conservation in action yesterday at the Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project site, which received financing from ADB and grant funding from Global Environment Facility (GEF). This is the first project in the PRC to use a mutilateral

Provinces like Shaanxi stand at the forefront of the PRC's commitment to achieve green and high-quality development. I travelled to Xi'an to witness this firsthand and was greeted warmly yesterday by Governor Zhao Gang.
 
We discussed the successful and longstanding relationship

Good to meet Minister of Finance and ADB Governor Lan Fo'an yesterday in Beijing for the first time. 
 
I congratulated the Minister on these recent appointments and shared my enthusiasm for continuing ADB's partnership with PRC, including in the areas of climate, health care,

Pleased to meet with People's Republic of China Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang yesterday in Beijing.

We discussed the PRC's considerable contribution to growth in Asia and the Pacific and the multifaceted nature of the ADB-PRC partnership, with growing potential to improve the

To address the mounting challenges of climate, slowing and inequitable growth, and other crises, multilateral development banks have been called upon to evolve.

A productive get together with Ajay Banga and Jin Liqun in Beijing last night, where we discussed ways to supercharge