Despite remarkable progress during the previous decade, only about a third of Bangladesh’s households had access to electricity in 2005. The country had been suffering from unreliable power supply because of insufficient generation capacity, an inadequate transmission grid, and unbalanced distribution facilities.
In 2009, the government of Uzbekistan launched the flagship Rural Housing Scheme that channeled rural savings into housing investments and utilized local contractors and construction materials to generate jobs and stimulate the construction industry. Under the scheme, 847 houses were built in 2009 and 6,800 houses in 2010.
In 2010, Bangladesh’s electrification rate was low, and blackouts were frequent. Several initiatives were taken to add generating capacity: the government allowed the installation of rental power plants of 40–115-megawatt (MW) capacity, refurbished old gas turbines, and converted open-cycle gas turbine plants to more efficient combined-cycle power plants.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has very challenging geographic conditions, making the movement of people and goods difficult. This creates a total reliance on aviation for tourism and business, exports and imports, domestic freight, and social cohesion.
A healthy level of private investment is essential for Viet Nam to achieve the 7%–8% annual economic growth rate and the 8 million new jobs it has targeted under the Socio-Economic Development Strategy, 2011–2020. Increasingly, such contribution is expected to come from the domestic private sector, largely composed of small and medium−sized enterprises (SMEs).
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