2008年年度报告卷1ANNUAL REPORT2008volume1

亚太地区对困难时期并不陌生。2008年，继上半年的食品、大宗商品和石油价格冲击之后，全球金融危机进一步扩大和加深，给包括亚洲在内的金融市场带来了不确定性。尽管亚洲多数经济体目前的经济状况比1997-1998年金融危机爆发时稳定得多，但股价暴跌和信贷市场萎缩意味着，未来的日子将十分艰难。对亚洲发展中国家来说，最重要的是其对实体经济的溢出效应，出口和生产增长大幅下滑，可能会逆转该地区来之不易的进步。亚洲开发银行迅速作出反应，拨出40多亿美元的额外资源，支持其发展中成员国处理这些危机的努力。这种迅速变化的环境强调了亚行保持灵活和反应迅速的必要性。与此同时，另一项重要发展——亚行发布的《2008-2020年长期战略框架》(《2020战略》)明确了我们的优先任务。《2020年战略》为亚行确定了战略方向，更加明确地侧重于通过引人注目的增长、环境可持续增长和区域一体化来减少贫困。《2020年战略》将我们的业务进一步集中在基础设施、环境、区域合作与一体化、金融发展和教育五个核心领域。它还强调了在该地区加大公私部门投资的必要性。为满足这一需求，我们将增加对私营部门发展的支持，到2020年将占我们年度业务的50%

The Asia and Pacific region is no stranger to troubled times. In 2008, on the heels of food, commodity and oil price shocks in the first half of the year, the global financial crisis broadened and deepened, feeding uncertainty across financial markets, including those in Asia. While most economies of the region are far more stable now than when the 1997–1998 financial crisis hit, plunging equity prices and shrinking credit markets imply tough times ahead. Most importantly for developing Asia is the spillover into the real economy, with sharply declining exports and production growth threatening to reverse the region’s hard-won progress. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) responded quickly, allocating over $4 billion of additional resources to support the efforts of its developing member countries to deal with these crises. This rapidly shifting environment underscored the need for ADB to remain flexible and responsive. At the same time, another key development—the launch of ADB’s long-term strategic framework 2008–2020 (Strategy 2020) clarified our priorities. Strategy 2020 sets a strategic direction for ADB, with a clearer focus on poverty reduction through in clusive growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. Strategy 2020 further focuses our operations in the five core areas of infrastructure, environment, regional cooperation and integration, finance sector dev elopment, and education. It also highlights the need for greater private–public sector investments in the region. Responding to this need, we will increase our support for private sector development to 50% of our annual operations by 2020