The Asian Development Bank will lend the Philippines a higher $945 million this year mainly for infrastructure projects as part of the Manila-based multilateral lender’s commitment to support the Duterte administration’s ambitious “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program. The state planning agency National Economic and Development Authority said that during a meeting between Philippine officials and executives of the ADB’s Philippine country office last month, the latter said that their lending pipeline for 2018 consisted of two policy-based loans (worth $600 million), one result-based loan ($300 million) as well as two other projects ($45 million). In December last year, the ADB...
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