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How China and the United States Can Come to Terms on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Scott Morris
January 29, 2015
With two major announcements on trade and climate at November’s APEC meetings, the United States and China have leaped into a highly productive bilateral relationship in the economic sphere. It’s all the more striking then to hear the discordant tone struck around the Asian Infrastructure Investment...
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A Big, Bold Restructuring at the Asian Development Bank, Part 1
Nancy Birdsall et al.
January 21, 2015
When President Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) visited CGD earlier last year, he described management’s groundbreaking proposal for a major restructuring of the bank’s financial model that we view as both sensible and creative.
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The ADB Says Poverty Is Rising in Asia: I Have My Doubts
Martin Ravallion
December 03, 2014
Would you believe that half of Asia lives in poverty and the absolute number is rising? That’s what the new Key Indicators report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) would have you believe. 
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How the United States Can Lose Influence in Asia in 4 Easy Steps
Scott Morris
October 16, 2014
Step One Unilaterally seek to push Asia’s largest economy out of the Asian Development Bank’s club of borrowers. Never mind that China’s “graduation” from the ADB would weaken the institution financially and sever an important channel of influence and dialogue with ...