Original disclosure @ ADB website
Updated in EWS Jan 15, 2024
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As stated by the ADB, reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific requires strong private sector engagement to address key development and infrastructure gaps, offer stable trade opportunities, and create gainful employment. While there has already been a robust growth in the region in recent years with substantial private sector engagement, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to significantly increase its private sector support through providing financing and support to commercially viable private sector projects. In many of ADB's developing member countries (DMCs) particularly fragile and frontier economies, identification and development of sustainable private sector projects for ADB to support remains a key challenge.
Such challenges arise from inadequate awareness of private sector sponsors and borrowers about the value which ADB's private sector operations support can bring to potential interested private sector partners in terms of products and expertise in designing and preparing projects that would comply with ADB's safeguards and credit requirements, would encourage women's participation, and, in certain cases, helping to correct deficiencies in a business' enabling environment that fall short of attracting private sector investments.
Corruption, fraud, and money laundering harm economic development and hinder efforts to reduce poverty and have emerged as one of the key development challenges in Asia and the Pacific. To address this, ADB's Anticorruption Policy requires ADB projects and staff to adhere to the highest standards in these regards.
Among the the sub-sectors stated in the technical assistance report there are: "Oil and gas transmission and distribution", and "Conventional energy generation".
ADB Team Leader:
Genevieve H. Abel - Principal Transaction Support Specialist (Integrity), Private Sector Transaction Support Division (PSTS)
No contacts provided at the time of disclosure.
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