In 2007, the port sector of Papua New Guinea (PNG) comprised 22 declared ports and many small wharves, jetties, and landing stages. However, only 5 of these ports had appropriate infrastructure and received international and coastal traffic. Lae Port was the most important port for international and domestic trade.
Thanh Hoa City is the capital and only major urban center of Viet Nam’s third largest but second poorest and second most populous province of Thanh Hoa. With a population of 200,000 in 2008, rising by 1.9% per year, it was one of the 11 class II secondary cities targeted by government for development to limit migration to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
During 2005–2009, Indonesia’s overall infrastructure investment need was estimated at $65 billion, $16 billion of which was targeted to come from private sector investors.
Armenia is a landlocked country in the mountainous region of Caucasus between Asia and Europe. Following the recession triggered by the 2009 global financial crisis, its gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 14.1%, the economy grew at an average 4.7% from 2010 to 2012 before declining to an average of 3.3% from 2013 to 2015.
Following the1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia became highly aware of the need to deepen and diversify its finance sector. Under the Medium-Term Development Plan, 2004–2009 and the subsequent National Medium-term Development Plan, 2010–2014, the government thus committed to developing the country’s capital market and nonbank finance subsector.
