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A Pacific Strategy for the New Millennium : IV. External Assistance

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B. ADB Assistance

46. ADB is a major multilateral donor in the Pacific region. Annually, ADB approves between $100-$150 million in loans and $15 million in TA grants for the region. A substantial part of these loans is from ADB's ADF window. By country, Papua New Guinea (56 percent), Fiji Islands (12 percent), Samoa (8 percent), and Solomon Islands (5 percent) together account for about 80 percent of the total lending. By the end-August 2000, the active portfolio of ADB loans to PDMCs included 35 loans for a total loan amount of $418.6 million. Some of the lessons learned from past experience of ADB operations in the PDMCs are given in Part V. The ADB's lending and technical assistance pipeline for 2001-2003 is given in Appendix 3.

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