Annual Report 2006

The Asian Development Bank's Annual Report 2006 presents the year's activities, focusing on results and how ADB is improving lives in the Asia and Pacific region. The report includes a feature on ADB’s 40th anniversary.

Financial highlights:

• $7.4 billion approved for 80 loans for 67 projects
• $260.5 million approved for 14 equity investments
• $124.8 million approved for 3 guarantees
• $530.0 million approved for 5 syndication operations
• $538.4 million approved for 43 grants
• $241.6 million approved for 260 technical assistance activities
• $3.8 billion approved for 8 multitranche financing facilities
• $5.7 billion disbursed during 2006, up from $4.7 billion in 2005

Major operational and institutional highlights:

• Lending up by 28% compared with 2005
• Most assistance went to the financial sector
• ADB made its first nonsovereign public sector loans, to India ($75 million) and Indonesia ($75 million)
• ADB supported its first private sector projects in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
• ADB identified core sectors for future assistance: road transport, energy, urban infrastructure, rural infrastructure, education, and financial services
• New medium-term strategy to guide ADB operations up to 2008
• New regional cooperation and integration policy
• Revised private sector development framework