From Dr Eisuke Suzuki.

Sir, I read with interest the article by Paul Speltz and Linda Tsao Yang on the reform of the Asian Development Bank (“Five ways to reform Asia’s regional bank”, January 28). Unhappily, however, their proposal is a rehash of old stories that do not take us anywhere. Instead, it reveals a more fundamental problem of the accountability of the board of directors. Ambassadors Speltz and Yang were members of the board who represented, full time, the interests of the US, the largest co-shareholder along with Japan. They were part of the ADB!