The lender projects that Asia, excluding Japan, will expand 6.1% this year, down from a July estimate of 6.6%.
It also forecast inflation would be 4.2% rather than 4.4%.
The ADB said countries in Asia must reduce their dependency on exports.
It singled out slowing growth in China and India, two of the biggest economies in the region, as the main driver of the revision.
"Deceleration in the region's two giants, the People's Republic of China and India, and in other major exporting economies is tempering earlier optimism," the ADB said.
"The ongoing sovereign debt crisis in the euro area and the looming fiscal cliff in the US pose major risks to the outlook."
Data out this week supported the ADB's gloomy outlook.
Manufacturing in China showed a contraction for the second month straight, Japanese industrial companies have become more pessimistic on their prospects and South Korean exports have fallen.
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