7th ADB Business Opportunities Fair

Introducing ADB
By: Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General, Operations Services
and Financial Management Department

16 March 2016

Outline
Part 1: ADBs Presence, Strategy and
Development Context
Part 2: ADBs Operations & Business
Opportunities

Part 1: ADBs Presence, Strategy

and Development Context

ADBs
Presence

HQ in Manila
29 Resident Missions & 3 Rep Offices
(Tokyo; Frankfurt; Wash DC)

Total Capital Stock: $188 billion from 1 Jan 2017 (Paid-in and Retained Income of
$53 billion; Callable Capital of $135 billion)
About 3,000 staff

ADB Strategy 2020

Vision:
Asia and the Pacific free of poverty.
ADBs core operations
Infrastructure
Environment
Regional cooperation
Finance sector
Education

Drivers of Change
Private sector development
and private sector operations
Good governance and
capacity development
Gender equity
Knowledge solutions
Partnerships

Development Context 1

Evolving
challenges
for DMCs and
MICs
Changing
delivery
mechanisms

Development Context 2: Subset of

Challenges facing DMCs
Addressing
Inequities
and
Disparities
Growth to
Quality of
Life

Global
Warming &
Competition
for Finite
Resources
Financial
Transformation
& Emerging
Market Concerns

Resource
Efficiency

Innovation &
Technology
Solutions

Rapid
Urbanization

Avoiding the Middle Income Trap

Growing Focus on Results

Corporate level:
Development
Effectiveness (DEFR)
Country level:
Country Partnership
and Strategy (CPS
Results Framework)
Project and
program level:
Design and
Monitoring Framework
(DMF)

Part 2: ADBs Operations and

Business Opportunities

ADB Operations
Main Instruments
Loans and Grants
Technical Assistance
Finance ++:

Significant leveraging through official and commercial cofinancing

Policy Advice, Knowledge Provision & Capacity Development

Lending
Sovereign engagement with Governments
Non-Sovereign lending to private/corporatized
enterprises in developing countries through loans,
equity investments, guarantees
AAA credit rating helps mobilize funds for
development activities

ADB 2006-2015 Approvals

Table 1: Approvals*, 20062015
($million)
2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

7,115
805
7,920

9,415
981
10,396

9,310
1,400
10,709

13,702
1,474
15,176

11,361
1,240
12,601

11,344
1,561
12,905

11,127
1,375
12,502

12,589
1,539
14,128

11,571
1,918
13,490

13,669
2,626
16,295

148

161

189

202

174

145

151

155

159

141

1,541

1,135

5,085

5,355

5,162

7,324

8,272

6,645

9,222

10,735

Total Operations
9,609 11,691 15,983 20,733 17,936 20,374
* Approvals include loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees.
Source: Operations Services and Financial Management Department, ADB.

20,925

20,928

22,871

27,171

Sovereign
Nonsovereign
Subtotal
Technical Assistance
Cofinancing

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ADB 2014-2015 Operations ($ million)

Approvals by Financing Source, 2014-2015 ($ million)
2014
Project Approvals
Ordinary Capital Resources
Loans
Guarantees
Equity Investments

2015

10,399
10,194
20
185

13,416
12,941
341
134

3,091
2,686
405

2,872
2,514
358

0
0

7
7

13,490

16,295

152
7

139
3

159

141

Subtotal of OCR, ADF and Special Funds

13,649

16,436

Cofinancing Including Trust Funds

Project Cofinancing
Technical Assistance Cofinancing

9,077
144

10,610
125

9,222

10,735

22,870

27,171

Asian Development Fund

Loans
Grants
Special Funds4
Grants
Subtotal
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance Special Fund
Special Funds
Subtotal

Subtotal
TOTAL

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Annual Approvals, Contract Awards,

Disbursements (Projects, OCR & ADF)
11.4

12
10.5

$ billion

10
7.6
6.7

6.5
6

9.3

8.7

10.3

9.8

4.6

4.6

5.0

5.3

2009

2010

7.9

7.3
6.2

5.6

4.8

3.9
4.2
3.2

6.5

7.5

6.2

6.0

2011

2012

8.1

7.2

7.0

2014

2015

6.5

3.9

0
2006

2007

2008

Annual Approvals

Annual Contract Awards

2013

Annual Disbursements

2006-2015 indicates contract awards and disbursements level lag approvals between $1 to $5
billion every year.
Backlog of contract awards and disbursements keep increasing.
OCR-ADF merger will have increased approvals and bring more pressure on contract awards and
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disbursement ratios.

Portfolio Distribution by Sub-Region

South-East
$17.5
billion
23%

South Asia
$23.3
billion
31%

Non-Ops $0.3
billion
Central0.4%

West
$19.5
billion
26%

Pacific
$2.0
billion
3%

East Asia
$12.4
billion
16%
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Portfolio Distribution by Large Countries

12%

15%

40%

60%

9%

8%

Others

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Viet Nam

People's Republic of China

India

16%

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ADB Business Opportunities - by Sector

Uncontracted Loan and Grant Funds - by Sector
(in US$ million at 31 Dec 2015) - Total = $27,613M
Water and Other
Urban Infrastructure
and Services; 4,064

Transport 29%
Energy 28%
Water/Urban- 15%
Agriculture- 12%
Education7%

Agriculture, Natural
Resources and Rural
Development; 3,310
Education; 1,808

Transport; 8,009

Energy; 7,721

Public Sector
Management; 742
Finance; 1,091
Multisector; 220

Information and
Communication
Technology; 72

Health; 455
Industry and Trade;
120
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ADB Business Opportunities By Country

Uncontracted Loan & Grant Funds - by Country
(in US$ million at 31 Dec 2015) - Total = $27,613M

6,000
PRCIND VIEPAKBAN-

5,000

18%
13%
11%
11%
8%

5,027

4,000

3,595
3,140

2,933

3,000
2,309

2,000

1,560
1,139

1,128

905

1,000

419
136

12 84 6

292

439
233

280
11

41

391
257
11

40

245

4 9 44 36

205

7 78

31 2

59

AFG
ARM
AZE
BAN
BHU
CAM
COO
FIJ
FSM
GEO
IND
INO
KAZ
KGZ
KIR
LAO
MLD
MON
MYA
NAU
NEP
PAK
PAL
PHI
PNG
PRC
REG
RMI
SAM
SOL
SRI
TAJ
THA
TIM
TKM
TON
TUV
UZB
VAN
VIE

278348

996

884

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TA Portfolio
1,800
957

991

1200

1200

965

121

1000

1,400
800

1,000
600
800
600

Number

$ million

1,200

122

1000
800

$ million

1,600

1069 1070

68

600

400

400

200

200

898

838

400
200
-

1,321 1,379 1,626 1,665 1,599

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Net TA Amount ($mn)

No. of Active TAs

73

513

466

2014

2015

0
2014

2015

Undisbursed
Non-PPTA

Uncommitted
PPTA

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Why do Business with ADB?

Worthy development mission: An Asia and

Pacific Free of Poverty

$25+ billion of uncommitted portfolio

A broad range of opportunities across the
region, and sectors
Strong focus on several important thematic
priorities (e.g. gender, governance,
environment & climate change etc)
Working with ADB can unlock the door for
business in emerging economies
ADB is your partner in achieving procurement
outcomes that are fair and transparent

Thank you!
For further information, please contact:
Ramesh Subramaniam
Director General
Operations Services and Financial Management
Department
rsubramaniam@adb.org