Private Sector Finance

Spotlight Private Sector Finance: Catalyzing Private Investment in the Asia and Pacific Region 2008

Infrastructure Sector

The wide-ranging benefits that the private sector can derive from expanded and improved infrastructure facilities support justify the priority ADB accords to financing infrastructure projects.

ADB provides assistance in the form of equity, loans and guarantees, as well as B loans (complementary financing scheme) for infrastructure projects. ADB can also assist in arranging parallel financing. Presently, ADB's private sector projects include the following sectors:

• power (e.g. generation, transmission and distribution, including a particular focus on renewable power)
• transportation (e.g. roads, ports, railways, airports)
• water supply and waste treatment
• telecommunications

ADB supports sub-sovereign, municipal, corporate and privatization of infrastructure projects.

ADB also provides financing for existing infrastructure projects that need to upgrade or expand their facilities to achieve operating efficiencies.

Financial restructuring of existing infrastructure projects that were financed with debt denominated in foreign currency and/or used short-term facilities may be considered for assistance by ADB.

View project information documents for proposed and approved private sector projects (i.e. infrastructure and capital markets / financial sectors). Alternatively, view all private sector projects (i.e. proposed, approved and closed / cancelled) or examples of the different types of existing private sector projects.