ADB is a leading multilateral development bank supporting sustainable, inclusive, and resilient growth across Asia and the Pacific. Working with its members and partners, ADB provides quality development solutions to solve the region’s complex challenges.
Founded in 1966, ADB is owned by 69 members—50 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
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ADB is helping the Philippines achieve a prosperous, inclusive, and climate-resilient future, building on a partnership nurtured for over 5 decades.
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Asian Development Bank and the Philippines: Fact Sheet
ADB is helping the Philippines address poverty and inequality, tackle climate change, enhance resilience and sustainability, make cities more livable, improve governance and institutional capacity, and promote gender equality.
Effective Mechanisms for Raising Tax Revenues
This paper explores why raising tax rates may not yield intended results unless certain conditions are met. It investigates these conditions and shows how broadening the tax base is crucial in expanding tax revenue.
A Descriptive Analysis of Poverty Among Older People in the Philippines
This paper analyses poverty among older Filipinos and discusses policy implications.
Redirecting Revenue Toward Health Could Curb Asia’s Chronic Disease Surge
Rising rates of chronic disease in Asia and the Pacific are driven by lifestyle shifts, aging populations, and unhealthy consumption. Some countries are using targeted fiscal policies and reinvested revenues to improve public health outcomes and reduce long-term costs.
Philippines Facts
ADB's Work in the Philippines
The Philippines is among the largest recipients of sovereign support from ADB and is currently the leading client for public–private partnership operations. Additionally, the country represents a growing market for ADB’s nonsovereign operations, reflecting its expanding development needs and opportunities.
To date, ADB has committed 647 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $36.5 billion to the Philippines.
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Economic Forecasts
Forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Poverty in the Philippines
Development indicators for the Philippines, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Results of ADB-Supported Operations
Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.
Projects Cofinanced
Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.
South Commuter Railway Project
Once completed, the South Commuter Railway—a section of the North-South Commuter Railway—will offer commuters fast public transport, help to ease road traffic congestion, and contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Philippines’ climate agenda.
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ADB supports the Philippine government’s vision to bring back the culture of rail transport in the country through the Malolos-Clark Railway and South Commuter Railway projects.
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What's New
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Asian Development Bank and the Philippines: Fact Sheet
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| Papers and Briefs
Effective Mechanisms for Raising Tax Revenues
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| Papers and Briefs
A Descriptive Analysis of Poverty Among Older People in the Philippines
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Digital Dividends: How ADB puts Technology at the Heart of Development
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Asian Development Review: Volume 42, Number 2
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Asia Bond Monitor – June 2025
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ADB, CGIAR, and Gates Foundation Partner to Transform Rice Sector, Uplift Millions of Smallholder Farmers in Asia and the Pacific
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Data Integration Approaches to Strengthen Asia and the Pacific's Statistical Capacity to Map Poverty
Contact: Philippines Country Office (PhCO)
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
Our goals and objectives
The Philippines Country Office (PhCO) was established to facilitate and monitor the impact of ADB's development agenda for the Philippines. We aim to
- strengthen partnership with a wide range of stakeholders including the Philippine Government, non-government organizations, local government units, the business community, donor institutions, media, and civil society
- improve the effectiveness of ADB's operations in the Philippines
Our objectives are to
- strengthen ADB's client orientation and be more responsive to stakeholders' needs by providing more open communication channels
- enhance ADB's visibility by promoting impact-oriented programs for the Philippines, and improving coordination with other development partners
- improve ADB's information-sharing capacity to allow easier and faster access of accurate data and information by stakeholders and the general public
- improve ADB's operations in the Philippines by
- closely coordinating the design and implementation of ADB projects
- monitoring and analyzing economic and social situations
- preparing strategies for poverty alleviation
- pursuing policy dialogues with the Government and other stakeholders.
Our functions
PhCO is responsible for
- interacting and coordinating with ADB's development partners and stakeholders regarding ADB's operations and activities in the Philippines
- conducting policy dialogues with the Government and other stakeholders to operationalize ADB's strategies, reform agenda, and programs for the Philippines
- preparing country reports on the Philippines' economic and development issues and ADB's country operations
- coordinating and strengthening partnerships with other external funding agencies to rationalize ADB's development strategy and programs for the Philippines vis-a-vis other agencies' initiatives
- disseminating information on ADB's activities in the Philippines to stakeholders and the general public
- coordinating with Government to closely monitor the ongoing projects portfolio and resolve problems related to project implementation
PhCO will be closed on these dates:
- New Year's Day: 1 January (Wednesday)
- Holy Thursday: 17 April (Thursday)
- Good Friday: 18 April (Friday)
- Labor Day: 1 May (Thursday)
- Independence Day: 12 June (Thursday)
- All Saints' Day: 31 October (Friday), in lieu of 1 November
- Bonifacio Day: 1 December (Monday), in lieu of 30 November
- Christmas Day: 25 December (Thursday)
- Rizal Day: 30 December (Tuesday)
- New Year's Eve: 31 December (Wednesday)
Last updated: 24 October 2024