Learning Lessons: Asian Development Fund Operations: A Decade of Supporting Poverty Reduction
Asian Development Bank | November 2011
Abstract
The Asian Development Fund (ADF) is ADB’s main concessional window for supporting poverty reduction in its poorer developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific. It is funded by international donors on a grant basis and has been replenished every four years since it was established in 1974. The current replenishment (ADF X, for 2009–2012) is the ninth. From 2001–2010, ADB approved $20 billion in ADF loans and grants for 29 countries, the most sizeable to Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal. The main allocations were made to operations in transport ($4.3 billion), agriculture ($3.7 billion), multi-sector ($2.8 billion), water and municipal services ($2.3 billion), public sector management ($2.0 billion), education ($1.5 billion), and energy ($1.5 billion). Over the past decade, there were gradual increases in the allocation for transport and energy and a decline in allocations for agriculture and education.
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Asian Development Bank. 2011. Learning Lessons: Asian Development Fund Operations: A Decade of Supporting Poverty Reduction. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3336. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Comprehensive Development Framework
Development Challenges
Development Planning
Millennium Development Goals
Policy Development
Program Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Capital Market Development
Development Economics
Financial Sector Development
Technology Development
World Development Indicators
Evaluation Methods
Development assistance
ADB
Curriculum development
Development assistance
Development aid
Development indicators
Development potential
Development models
Project appraisal
Performance appraisal
Economic development
Economic indicators
Government programs
Economic growth
Economic policy
Industrial development
Industrial policy
Technology assessment
Economic evaluation
Economic forecast
Input output analysis
Communication in rural development
Communication in community development
Infrastructure
Central planning
Endowment of research
Partnership
Joint venture
Nation-building
Risk assessment
Economic development projects
Economic forecasting
Industrial research
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Economic policy
Economic forecasting
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