Solomon Islands and ADB
In the Spotlight
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Uncertainties Delaying Economic Recovery in the Pacific
Growth in the Pacific is expected to remain weak in 2018, as economic and political uncertainties, fiscal challenges, and natural disasters hold back some of the region’s larger economies. Slower growth in Solomon Islands is expected in 2018 and 2019, says a new ADB report.
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Pacific Transport Update 2017
This document provides an overview of ADB’s transport projects in the Pacific region. It highlights the impacts and outcomes of initiatives completed in 2016 and active in 2017.
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Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2017
This latest issue highlights the gains of Pacific developing member countries and the challenges that these countries continue to face including the impacts of climate change.
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Solomon Islands: Roads/Routes to Success
This country brief discusses how Solomon Islands has achieved important development gains through ADB’s support.
Solomon Islands covers about 28,000 square kilometers of Melanesia. Around 85% of the population of 528,000 lives in widely dispersed villages of just a few hundred people each.
A key development challenge for the government is controlling recurrent expenditure amid modest growth in revenues. The economy is based on primary commodities, and alternative opportunities to generate income are scarce. Economic growth prospects rest on the private sector and on developments in mining, agriculture, and fishing, with some potential for tourism.
ADB’s focus on energy, information and communication technology, private sector development, public sector management, and transport remains relevant in the context of government priorities and the support provided by other development partners
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ADB supports Solomon Islands’ National Transport Plan, which calls for integrated planning, environmental and social sustainability, and an infrastructure base that is resilient to natural disasters and climate change.
Asian Development Bank and Solomon Islands: Fact Sheet
Pacific island countries need to build their fiscal and economic resilience to climate change and natural disasters as these have lasting consequences on their livelihoods, economies, and fiscal balances.
Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Disasters in the Pacific
Uncertainties Delaying Economic Recovery in the Pacific
Growth in the Pacific is expected to remain weak in 2018, as economic and political uncertainties, fiscal challenges, and natural disasters hold back some of the region’s larger economies.
Projects in Solomon Islands
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