Masatsugu Asakawa
@ADBPresident
President of @ADB_HQ. Please call me Masa.
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http://adb.org 08-03-2021 08:25:30
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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
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,
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
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