Development Effectiveness Review 2009 Report

Abstract

This is the third annual performance report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which finds that ADB made good progress toward many of its Strategy 2020 targets. It also highlights areas where ADB needs to improve its performance and what corrective measures it is implementing. The review assesses ADB's performance in managing its entire operations, as well as its operations funded by its Asian Development Fund (ADF), its concessional financing window. One assessment is that while there was some progress in reducing income poverty, there was too little improvement in the performance of most of the non-income poverty indicators.