The US administration has endorsed a trebling of the Asian Development Bank's capital to $165bn, setting the stage for a resolution to a long-running wrangle over whether the Asian lender should be granted more money amid US-led concerns about its efficiency and project evaluation standards.
The Treasury's backing for the capital increase, which is expected to be discussed on Monday at an ADB board meeting, will come as a relief to the bank, whose management had warned that without extra money its lending would be halved – just as Asia faces a plunge in exports and countries struggle with a recession.
Instead, the ADB plans to use the funding to boost its annual level of lending from about $9bn (€6.7bn, £6.1bn) to $13bn.
您已閱讀68%（728字），剩餘32%（340字）包含更多重要資訊，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，並享受更多專屬服務。