Annual Report 1997

On 10 December 1997, the Asian Development Bank inaugurated the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, with a symposium entitled “The Currency Crisis and Beyond.”

The Institute is a subsidiary body of the Bank, established to pursue the following objectives. First, through research, it will help ADB's developing member countries identify development strategies suited to their particular social and economic circumstances. Second, through capacity-building and training activities, it will help improve the management capacity of agencies and organizations in DMCs engaged in development work.

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