The transport sector is important to Pakistan’s economy. In 2005, it comprised about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. Road transport was the dominant mode, accounting for 91% of passenger and 96% of freight traffic. The national highway network, consisting of 8,320 kilometers (km) of highways and 710 km of motorways, carried 75%–80% of all national traffic.
Many of the poor households in the provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake would migrate seasonally to the lake and upland forests to meet their food shortfalls and supplement their livelihood in the villages.
Tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors of the world. With total global demand reaching $7 trillion in 2007, it accounted for around 10% of the global gross domestic product and employed 240 million people. International tourist arrivals exceeded 880 million, with total receipts estimated at $700 billion.
Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, comprises 11 districts and 2 counties that straddle the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It was a rapidly developing city at project appraisal in 2006.
At project appraisal in 2000, Kolkata had severe environmental problems, a high proportion of poor people, a municipal corporation that had progressively implemented urban governance reforms and showed a willingness to continue doing so, and the potential to serve as a useful model for other large municipalities.
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