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Country Focus
AFGHANISTAN
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Building Roads, Changing Lives
Decades of conflict destroyed much of Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure, including its road network. Rehabilitation and upgrading of the country’s roads and highways is improving access to markets, enabling private investment, and expanding foreign trade—all key to Afghanistan’s further economic progress.
BANGLADESH
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A Clean Fuel to Boost Incomes
Compressed Natural Gas has been around since the 1980s. Through an ADF-supported project, it has finally taken off in Dhaka.
BHUTAN
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Lighting Up Lives
Electricity is casting a new light into the remote areas of Bhutan, and thanks to it, the people are healthier, financially stable, and have brighter futures.
CAMBODIA
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Clean Water for Tonle Sap's Poor
The Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, but provinces around it have limited access to safe water and sanitation. An ADB project is providing a solution.
MONGOLIA
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Education for All
After painful streamlining and reforms, the majority of Mongolia’s children again have the chance to gain a decent education with modernized schools, improved curricula, and new textbooks.
NEPAL
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Funding a Microcredit Revolution
A rural microcredit scheme is not only reducing poverty in rural Nepal, but also empowering women and breaking down gender barriers.
PAKISTAN
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New Hope for Women
Water and sanitation investment projects are empowering women and creating a significant impact on gender relations in rural Pakistan.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
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On the Same Track
ADB and its development partners discuss their joint response to restoring roads and bridges in the Solomon Islands through the eyes of the almost complete Post Conflict Emergency Rehabilitation Project.
SRI LANKA
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Switched On
With ADB’s help, Sri Lanka’s secondary students are finding better schools and programs to provide skills for a changing job market.
TAJIKISTAN
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Road Out of Poverty
Improvements to a key road artery in Tajikistan bring a host of benefits to impoverished communities: better access to schools, hospitals, and markets.
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A New Flow of Opportunities
An emergency loan to fund repairs to Tajikistan’s troubled water supply reduces waste, boosts farm productivity, and improves incomes.
VIET NAM
REGIONAL
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Road to Opportunity
Upgrading the road link between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City marks a milestone in the Greater Mekong Subregion initiative to promote economic cooperation in a formerly conflict-torn area.
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ADF Achievements in Brief
Over the past 7 years, ADB, through ADF, has
- built 38,000 schools
- built or improved 6,700 health facilities
- given 208,500 impoverished households clean water connections
- irrigated 336,000 hectares of land
- built and rehabilitated 42,000 kilometers of roads—more than the circumference of Earth
- built 3,600 bridges to connect people to jobs, markets, and services
- provided over 820,000 households with new energy connections
- installed approximately 110,000 communications lines
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