The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) have pledged to continue working closely together and jointly mobilize their resources to promote sustainable growth, fight poverty, and protect the environment in the Asia and Pacific region. >>>
The exposition areas of Uzexpocenter national exhibition complex will be reconstructed and expanded for the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to be held in the Uzbek capital on 1-4 May.* >>>
A session of work group will consider the report by the Lessors Association of Uzbekistan on the state of the Uzbek leasing services market on results of 2009. The meeting will take place in Tashkent on 11 March.* >>>
The World Bank Institute has launched an online multiplayer game, EVOKE, designed to empower young people all over the world, but especially in Africa, to start solving urgent social problems like hunger, poverty, disease, conflict, climate change, sustainable energy, lack of health care and education.* >>>
Samarkand bank has started providing a new service – Mobile-banking – using which the bank's clients can manage easily their accounts. The service allows paying for services in the real time mode.* >>>
A solemn ceremony dedicated to the 15th anniversary of one of the leading leasing companies in Uzbekistan – UzbekLeasing International A.O. joint venture in the form of closed joint-stock company – was held on 15 February.* >>>
In an address at the Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee in Washington, DC, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn set out the key elements of a renewed vision for what he called "an IMF for the 21st century."* >>>
Tashkent's Centre of National Art on February 23 hosted a ceremony to award the winners of the competition "Social Support of Family Entrepreneurship", organized by the Women's Council Public Association and the National Association of Microfinance Organisations and Credit Unions (NAMOCU).* >>>
Making Asia's sprawling urban areas more sustainable, competitive and environmentally friendly is the focus of an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-organized conference that begins in Manila on 26 February.* >>>