• Without efficient transport, the productive sectors cannot fulfill their potential, so many of the MDGs will not be achieved.
  
  
• Globalization has intensified the need for efficient transport.
  
  
• Private sector engagement in transport increased in the early 1990s, but the public sector remained dominant.
  
  
• Increased attention by the Bank to the social sectors drew lending away from transport for a while.
  
  
• Since 2002 there has been a strong swing back to transport lending as part of the Bank’s renewed emphasis on infrastructure.

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