As of January 18, 2021, approved investments in fixed-income securities totaled US$1,000.0 million.
As of January 18, 2021, approved financings (including approved financings under the COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility) spanned a broad range of sectors, including energy, transport, urban development, water, finance, information, communication and technology (“ICT”), rural infrastructure and agriculture development, economic resilience, finance/liquidity and public health and, excluding multi-country financings (discussed below), pertained to projects in the following members: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. As of January 18, 2021, of the approved financings, nine (seven investments in funds and two investments in fixed-income securities) were classified as multi-country financings because they are intended to involve beneficiaries in multiple members.
COVID-19 Pandemic
AIIB Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an adverse impact on the global economy and on the individual economies of AIIB members. AIIB members are working to contain the COVID-19 pandemic as quickly as possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to mitigate the risks of long-lasting, structural harm to their economies. Developing economies, especially those with weak health care infrastructure, vulnerable macroeconomic or financial sector fundamentals or a high dependence on tourism or remittances, require support from the international financial community to respond to and contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of a coordinated international response to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, AIIB is working closely with other international financial institutions to create a network of support options, especially for the most vulnerable economies. Based on feedback from public and private sector partners, the Bank’s immediate assistance is required in three key areas: (i) immediate health care sector needs (including support for emergency public health responses and for the long-term sustainable development of the health care sector), (ii) economic resilience, mainly where clients require financing to supplement government measures supporting the social and economic response and recovery efforts (including infrastructure investments and investments in social and economic protection measures to prevent long-term damage to the productive capacity of the economy and to protect and restore productive capital) and (iii) investments in infrastructure and other productive sectors, mainly where clients might otherwise need to curtail long-term investments due to liquidity constraints.
The Bank has adopted a variety of measures to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early April 2020, the Bank launched a US$5 billion COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility (the “CRF”), which the Bank subsequently increased to US$5-10 billion, and then to US$13 billion due to high demand. The CRF, which is designed to adapt to emerging client needs, offers sovereign-backed and non-sovereign-backed financings for qualifying clients and projects within AIIB’s members. As of January 18, 2021, the Bank approved 27 financings under the CRF, totaling US$7,074.9 million.
Representative examples of approved CRF financings that are intended to address the three key areas described above include the following: (i) a US$500 million sovereign-backed financing in India as part of a co-financing led by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“World Bank”), mainly to purchase emergency medical equipment, enhance disease detection capacities and strengthen the national health care system, (ii) a US$750 million financing, as part of an Asian Development Bank (“ADB”)-led co-financing, to support Indonesia’s COVID-19 Active Response and
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