In November 2008, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $2.9 million grant for the Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project of the Kyrgyz Republic. The project aimed to reduce the cost of doing business in the country by streamlining business registration and foreign trade clearance as measures to improve the investment climate.
At project appraisal, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in the northwestern part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), was one of the country’s least developed inland areas. Its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2002 was about two-thirds of the national average. Of its 15 counties, eight were classified as poverty counties.
Fujian Province, on the southeastern coast of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is more than 80% hills and mountains. It underwent rapid economic growth in the few decades prior to project appraisal in 2003. But the standard of living of its rural households had remained much lower than that of its urban population.
Basic education in the Kyrgyz Republic deteriorated substantially after independence. Considerable investment was required to improve quality, access, and participation and to meet the Millennium Development Goals for education.
In June 1997, a presidential decree in Georgia created the Municipal Development Fund (MDF) to enable municipal governments to take out soft loans and grants for municipal infrastructure investments. Since then, the MDF has enjoyed the support of many international development agencies, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that provided its first loan for Georgia’s Municipal Services Dev
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