In pursuing an export-driven economic growth, the Government of Papua New Guinea had established "development enclaves”, such as mines, plantations, and logging sites, in rural areas. These discrete centers of economic activity generated jobs and a cash economy contrasting with the subsistence farming of the surrounding rural populations.

In 2 December 2010, ADB provided a loan of $250 million from its ordinary capital resources to finance 14.3% of the project cost, including taxes and duties on expenditures on items funded by ADB. The government financed contingencies and financing charges during implementation.

To increase private investment into infrastructure projects, the Indonesian Infrastructure Financing Facility (IIFF) was conceived in 2007 as a nonbank financial institution to develop and finance commercially viable infrastructure projects in Indonesia, especially PPPs. IIFF's development was built on experience drawn from India's Infrastructure Development Financing Company and Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services.

This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the Economic Support Program in Tonga to assess its performance and highlight lessons. It provides input to the ongoing corporate evaluation on policy-based lending of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and future ADB operations in the country.

This report assesses the performance and highlight lessons learned from the Strengthening Public Financial Management Program in Tonga. The evaluation will support the ongoing corporate evaluation of the policy-based lending of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

“Never before at the European Investment Bank have we seen as many private and public sector initiatives that are focused on building a sustainable financial system,” said EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor on 15 November 2017 at a COP23 side event, organised by the European Parliament, on the role of non-state actors in increasing and improving climate finance.

The Project aimed to help the Philippines achieve health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality. Insufficient investment in the health sector precluded better access to higher quality services.