Learning Lessons: Enhancing the Contribution of the Private Sector to Inclusive and Environmentally Sustainable Growth

Abstract

The private sector plays a pivotal role in creating economic opportunities to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific. For development institutions, private sector investments offer plenty of opportunity for promoting inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth—and doing so at a profit. But this can be difficult terrain to navigate, as the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) experience in this area over the past decade shows.