ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
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Multivariate Statistical and Graphical Classification Techniques Applied to the Problem of Grouping Countries
The paper considers the problem of classifying the ADB's developing member countries (DMCS) on the basis of 11 indicators of social and economic development.
Estimates of the Total External Debt of the Developing Member Countries of ADB: 1981-1983
It is generally recognized that the lack of comprehensive data an the external indebtedness of less-developed countries constitutes a major gap in the information required by both borrowers and lenders. It has even been suggested that the inadequacy of data perhaps contributed to the recent external debt crises. For most of the last decade, only, two agencies, viz,, the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) compiled and published debt statistics of countries. While these sources provided reliable estimates of debt to official (i.e., bilateral and multilateral) creditors, the data could not be used to estimate total debts to private creditors.