Solomon Islands consists of six large islands, dozens of smaller islands, and hundreds of islets and atolls. It has a land area of 28,000 square kilometers (km). Until 2009, more than 80% of its population was rural, living in widely dispersed villages of a few hundred persons.
Transport corridor 3 of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program runs from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) through Irkeshtam at the PRC–Kyrgyz Republic border and Karamyk at the Kyrgyz Republic–Tajikistan border toward several Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan to the south and Uzbekistan to the west.
The Southern Transport Development Project, which aimed to catalyze the development of the socioeconomically deprived southern region and improve road safety nationwide, is the largest greenfield road project ever implemented in Sri Lanka.
Inadequate road connectivity had hampered the economic growth of rural India in the years prior to this program. To address the challenge, the government launched the Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Program (PMGSY) in 2000. The national program intended to upgrade about 738,000 kilometers (km) of rural roads to an all-weather standard at a total estimated cost of about $30 billion.
To cope with the dramatic growth in traffic demand, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) formulated in 1988 a long-term strategy to implement a 35,000 kilometer (km) national trunk highway system. By 2004, this strategy had further evolved into a plan for a national expressway network with a total length of 85,000 km and which was targeted for completion by 2020.
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