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Tools and Results

The table shows the PSD objectives, the tools we apply in their pursuit, and the expected results of our interventions.


PSD Objectives Tools Target Results
Creating Enabling Conditions
  • Policy dialogue
  • Economic and sector work
  • Program loans
  • Sector development loans
  • Project loans
  • Technical assistance
  • Cofinancing
  • Partial credit guarantees
  • Sound macroeconomic policy
  • Appropriate competition policy
  • Investment and trade liberalization
  • Legal and judicial reform
  • Public administration reform
  • State enterprise reform
  • Tax reform
  • Product markets reform
  • Financial sector reform
  • Capital market reform
  • Pension and insurance reform
  • Labor and land markets reform
  • Sound environmental and social standards
  • Reform of infrastructure and other sectors
  • Good physical, social, and technological infrastructure
Generating Business Opportunities
  • Technical assistance
  • Program loans
  • Sector development loans
  • Project loans
  • Cofinancing
  • Partial credit guarantees
  • Private sector participation in Asian Development Bank (ADB)-financed public sector projects through contracts for
    • Management
    • Concession and
    • Leasing
  • ADB-designed model build-operate-transfer and other types of projects with poverty reduction impacts
  • ADB-supported privatization programs
Catalyzing Private Investment
  • Loans without government guarantees
  • Equity investments
  • Hybrid instruments
  • Cofinancing
  • Partial risk guarantees
  • Partial credit guarantees
  • Private sector projects with development impacts and/or demonstration effects
  • Priority to be given to
    • Infrastructure facilities
    • Financial institutions
    • Investment funds
    • Specialized financial institutions for small and medium-sized enterprises and micro enterprises, and
    • Pilot health and education projects

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