ADB supports Maldives in addressing its challenges as a small island developing state, improving fiscal management, building climate resilience, developing the private sector, and strengthening knowledge and institutional capacity.
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Following the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, ADB President Masato Kanda heard from leaders about the need for a shared vision of development for the region.
Development Asia
Poverty estimation has traditionally relied on household surveys and census data, but these methods often lack the granularity and timeliness needed to identify localized areas of economic disparities.
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Maldives joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1978. The small island developing state is entitled to grants and concessional funding through the Asian Development Fund and external financing through financial partners of ADB.
Asian Development Blog
Rising rates of chronic disease in Asia and the Pacific are driven by lifestyle shifts, aging populations, and unhealthy consumption. Some countries are using targeted fiscal policies and reinvested revenues to improve public health outcomes and reduce long-term costs.
Typical of small island nations, Maldives has a limited human resource pool that makes capacity constraints more challenging and affects the planning and implementation of some ADB-supported projects in the country. To address this, ADB has been extending technical assistance for strengthening the institutional capacity and skills of the government for country programming, interagency coordination, and portfolio management.
To date, ADB has committed 121 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling 554ドル million to Maldives.
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.
Development indicators for Maldives, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.
Creating positive transformation requires all voices to be heard. In the atoll nations of Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu, community youth leadership is crucial to address the impacts of evolving climate conditions.
ADB does not have a resident mission in Maldives. ADB South Asia Department (SARD) is responsible for the country coordination for Maldives.
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