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News from Country Offices | 11 August 2021
Bhutan and ADB Launch Construction of Satellite Clinics at Babena, Thimphu
Bhutan’s Ministry of Health and the Asian Development Bank held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the construction of satellite clinics in urban peripheries in Thimphu and Phuentsholing.
Article | 16 July 2021
Q&A: Kenichi Yokoyama on climate resilient and sustainable infrastructure in South Asia
Kenichi Yokoyama, Director General of ADB's South Asia Department, explains ADB’s responses to regional challenges, gives concrete examples of what ADB has already done, and what it intends to do in the years ahead.
News from Country Offices | 29 April 2021
Bhutan’s Economy to Shrink in 2021 but Expected to Rebound in 2022 — ADB
Economic growth in Bhutan is forecast to contract by 3.4% this fiscal year (FY) 2021 from 0.9% in FY2020 on account of stringent pandemic containment measures, including two prolonged nationwide lockdowns that stifled economic activity...

Reports | 11 August 2021
Climate Risk Country Profile: Bhutan
This publication synthesizes climate characteristics and projections, vulnerability to natural hazards, sectoral climate change impacts, and adaptation priorities in Bhutan.

Data: Bhutan ADB and Bhutan: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in Bhutan

Development indicators for Bhutan, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Bhutan: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Bhutan

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 6 January 2020
Health Sector Development In Bhutan: Improving Disease Detection
The Health Sector Development Program, supported by the ADF facility and additional ADF grant funding for a total of $20 million, is improving primary health care delivery and information systems in Bhutan.
Project Result / Case Study | 14 November 2019
Climate Change and Disasters: Protecting Townships in Bhutan
A major focus of the Phuentsholing Township Development Project is to provide a safer space in which the town can grow by helping develop a new urban center with raised ground levels in an area sheltered by the embankments.
Project Result / Case Study | 15 May 2014
Bringing Power to Bhutan's Villages and Beyond
An ADB-supported project in Bhutan has brought electricity to the country’s poor and will earn revenues for the government from exporting electricity to India.