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Energy 2000: Review of the Energy Policy of the Asian Development Bank : Future assistance in the changing context

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Proposed operational priorities

75. The important developments discussed in the preceding chapter require a realignment toward the following four operational priorities:

1. poverty reduction: by creating energy infrastructure for sustainable economic growth, increasing access to energy for the poor, particularly in rural areas, and making sure that the poor account for a major portion of beneficiaries in ADB projects
2. promoting private sector involvement: by restructuring the energy sector and creating an enabling environment for private investors
3. addressing regional and global environmental impacts: by supporting measures to address acid rain problems, use of clean energy and Kyoto Protocol mechanisms for GHG abatement, and by financing renewable energy projects and
4. promoting regional cooperation: by helping DMCs identify and implement export-oriented hydropower and natural gas-based generation and transmission projects.

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