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ADB should stay fully engaged with the program of reforms it is supporting, regardless of whether funds are scheduled to be disbursed or not in a particular year.

Project Number: 50210-001
Project Name: Fiscal Resilience Improvement Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Government ownership and commitment and flexibility to adjust to changes that are crucial to the successful implementation of public sector and fiscal reforms.

Project Number: 50210-001
Project Name: Fiscal Resilience Improvement Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Lesson
All Pacific developing member countries, including Samoa, experience great difficulty implementing long-term structural adjustment policies. While demand-side, short-term price stabilization policies may be more readily implemented, longer-term changes to land tenure and state-owned enterprises and efforts to liberalize trade and investment regimes confront a very difficult political economy environment in the Pacific islands. Governments are comfortable with short-term price reforms that pose less of a challenge to the political economy.

Project Number: 43191-013, 43191-023
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program - Subprograms 1 and 2
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Inadequate preparation at appraisal and readiness at approval caused the problems encountered during implementation. An urban development master plan and more importantly a detailed feasibility study to fully assess costs and alternatives was not in place prior to appraisal. As a result, the project required (i) further detailed studies during an extended initial implementation phase, and (ii) supplementary financing.

Project Number: 28314-013, 28314-023
Project Name: Sanitation and Drainage Project
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