Development is about expertise and influence-not just money. To help end poverty, fight climate change and bring ravaged cities back from disaster, the European Investment Bank supported 87 new projects outside the EU last year. Here are some of the results we expect.

Micro loans make a big difference
Women and farmers will benefit from a programme that is reducing poverty by providing small loans in countries such as Haiti, East Timor, Niger and Mali.

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Maldives looks to the sun
Power generation is a challenge for the Maldives. A EUR 45 million loan from the EU bank is helping the country build new generators and use solar panels.

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Fighting pollution in Mediterranean
Tunisia is reducing pollution by repairing and expanding sewers and water-treatment plants on the coast. The project is helping the fishing and tourism industries.

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Rebuilding after disaster struck
The earthquake that struck large parts of western Ecuador in 2016 destroyed many buildings and left more than 100 000 people without homes. The EIB gave a EUR 162 million loan to rebuild sewer systems, roads and buildings.

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Getting electricity for the first time
Some parts of Senegal have little or no electricity and no meters to measure consumption. A new project will install 1 779 kilometres of power lines and
480 000 electricity meters.

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Mobile connectivity for remote pockets of world
Conflict-torn areas of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have little access to mobile phone networks. A project by Africa Mobile Networks is installing 650 solar-powered mobile phone base stations here and in Cameroon.

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A subway for a crowded Indian city
Public transportation is one of the top ways a city can support social and economic development. In Lucknow in northern India, the EIB offered a
EUR 450 million loan to help build the first subway line.

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Join the EIB at the European Development Days
As a major player in the world of development finance, the EIB is sharing its ideas and expertise with development actors and stakeholders in a number of events under three major themes at the European Development Days 2017, taking place in Brussels on 7-8 June.

In conjunction with the European Development Days, the EIB is releasing its Results Measurement (REM) report, an annual assessment of the bank’s activities outside the European Union.

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