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ADB Firsts - in Photos

Online Photographic Exhibit

ADB Firsts Index

First Program Loan to the Industry Sector, 12 December 1979

$5.2 million concessional loan for a program designed to improve the productivity and capability utilization of the cement industry in Burma (Myanmar).


President Taroichi Yoshida (fourth from left)
signs documents of the first program loan.

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