6.4 Role of the Asian Development Bank in Poverty Reduction

The ADB (the regional's face): the 1966's establishment (the Manila-headquartered (the Asia- Pacific's development-bank)); the mandate's evolution (the growth's infra-era → the poverty- strategy's 1999 (the poverty's explicit-primary) → the Strategy-2030's frame (the prosperous- inclusive-resilient-sustainable (the seven-priorities (the poverty's mainstream))); The instruments: the OCR-and-the ADF (the ordinary-and-the-Asian-development-fund (the concessional's soft-window (the Nepal's ADF-history))); the project-lending (the infrastructure's core (the energy-and-the-transport (the LAW5806-U's hydropower faces))); the technical- assistance-and-the-policy-lending's faces. The Nepal record: the decades' portfolio (the roads (the Araniko-and-the-strategic-roads' lore); the energy-line (the hydro's co-financing); the agriculture-and-the-social faces); the country-partnership-strategy's cycle (the Nepal's CSP (the poverty-reduction's country-frame)).