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News Release | 10 December 2021
$300 Million ADB Loan to Strengthen Pakistan’s Energy Sector
The Asian Development Bank today approved a $300 million policy-based loan to support financial, technical, and governance reforms to strengthen Pakistan’s energy sector and improve its financial sustainability.
News Release | 10 December 2021
ADB Approves Flagship Urban Development Project in Pakistan
The Asian Development Bank today approved $385 million in financing to help improve the livability and community health of five cities in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
News Release | 8 December 2021
$603 Million ADB Program to Support Ehsaas Social Protection and Poverty Reduction Strategy in Pakistan
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $603 million results-based lending program to strengthen and expand social protection programs in Pakistan.

Reports | 20 December 2021
Developing the Services Sector for Economic Diversification in CAREC Countries
This study underscores the potential for greater economic diversification through robust development of seven key services subsectors and industries in members of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.

Data: Pakistan ADB and Pakistan: 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 Pakistan

Development indicators for Pakistan, 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.

Pakistan: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Pakistan

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 15 June 2021
Energy flows where attention goes: European expertise in Pakistan
ADB’s European Representative Office works with the bank’s 17 European member countries to facilitate the application of European expertise to ADB projects in developing member countries, such as the Balakot Hydropower Development Project in Pakistan.
Project Result / Case Study | 18 January 2021
A newly completed bus rapid transit system is transforming lives of people in Peshawar, Pakistan
A bus rapid transit system in Pakistan established with financing by ADB and Agence Française de Développement is improving lives in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Project Result / Case Study | 8 November 2018
Pakistan: Responding to Disaster with Partnership
When an unprecedented disaster struck Pakistan, ADB joined with other partners to provide lasting solutions.