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Infrastructure

Promoting pro-poor growth and enhancing human and social development of the poor requires affordable and reliable access to economic infrastructure facilities and services. The need for increased investments in infrastructure and for making infrastructure management and maintenance more efficient and more effective for the poor is widely recognized.

This website comprises knowledge products and operational experiences from ADB on poverty relevant infrastructure services in

transport
energy, and
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Further work on water infrastructure - both drinking water and irrigation - can be found in the urban and rural poverty links.

Did you know? Up to 70% of the Asia and Pacific region's rescue packages are focusing on infrastructure spending. A paper [PDF: 222kb | 18 pages], presented at the Hanoi conference on the social impact of the global recesssion, shows that labor based infrastructure would contribute substantially to poverty reduction.

View ADB's knowledge products and operational expertise on addressing income poverty and promoting pro-poor growth through infrastructure.

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