The government of India launched the Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Program (PMGSY) on December 2000 as a centrally sponsored scheme to provide all-weather access to unconnected eligible rural habitations. By improving the connectivity of these habitations, the PMGSY hopes to accelerate agricultural and rural economic growth and thereby reduce poverty more rapidly and inclusively.
A shortage of skilled labor, caused by the disparity between graduates’ skills and labor market needs, was constraining the economic growth of the Kyrgyz Republic at project appraisal. To help reduce this disparity, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a loan of $10 million and a grant of $10 million for the Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project in September 2012.
Viet Nam has some of the highest levels of public expenditure on infrastructure and services in Southeast Asia. Yet, higher government expenditure was not always directly associated with improved outcomes.
Assam’s power sector faced serious challenges in the late 2000s. Only one-third of households had access to electricity. Frequent power outages, lasting 5–6 hours a day during the peak season, created significant problems for consumers.
In response to the devastating Haiyan or Yolanda typhoon in November 2013, the Philippines’ Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) utilized the existing Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (Linking Arms Against Poverty)–Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) system to support recovery and rehabilitation.
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