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Uzbekistan joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1995. ADB opened the Uzbekistan Resident Mission in Tashkent in 1998. During 15 years of partnership, ADB has supported Uzbekistan's efforts toward environmentally sustainable rural development, private sector development, regional transport and transit, and human capital through access to water, education, and health services. ADB is responding to Uzbekistan's strong economic growth and evolving development by supporting infrastructure development in areas such as energy, transport, and water supply, and by mobilizing the private sector. Since 1995, ADB has extended 34 loans to the country, totaling $1.945 billion, and $41 million in technical assistance.

Uzbekistan joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1995. ADB opened the Uzbekistan Resident Mission in Tashkent in 1998. During 15 years of partnership, ADB has supported Uzbekistan's efforts toward environmentally sustainable rural development, private sector development, regional transport and transit, and human capital through access to water, education, and health services. ADB is responding to Uzbekistan's strong economic growth and evolving development by supporting infrastructure development in areas such as energy, transport, and water supply, and by mobilizing the private sector. Since 1995, ADB has extended 34 loans to the country, totaling $1.945 billion, and $41 million in technical assistance.

The Partnership for Growth (PfG) is one of the first experiments to operationalize the Obama administration's strategy to bring greater programmatic coherence to U.S. trade and development initiatives in four countries--The Philippines, El Salvador, Ghana, and Tanzania. A key goal was to reinforce a country-led approach, but to also bring to the development table the considerably deeper pockets of non-aid actors, as well as what they are best at bringing--the jobs, training, new businesses, domestic supply chain, and market linkages that are the fundamental ingredients of any sustainable development strategy.

In the past years growing interest in alternative forms of food supply chains has incentivised researchers to investigate the role of retailers in Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) mainly in the United States, Canada and the EU, with little attention paid to SFSC retailer interaction in the German context specifically. The aim of this thesis to contribute to the existing literature by investigating how the country's presumed institutional conditions affect the viability of selling via retailers for a certain type of SFSC producer. The location of the study was northern Hamburg, Germany. Six semi-structured interviews, substituted with four questionnaires, were conducted with micro- to large-scale producers involved in local SFSC schemes and selling via branches of the supermarket chain Edeka, and a group of producers who did not sell via this retailer. A document analysis of statements of producers and other stakeholders on the cities intention to support local agriculture by creating additional demand provided an overview of the effects of agricultural circumstances and policies had on SFSC. The interviews were analysed by applying Stevenson and Pirogs 'values-based supply chain' framework and showed that only micro- or mid- to large scale producers profited from the cooperation, which in the latter case was more of a partnership of convenience. In combination with the document analysis, which found limited land and capital access, expensive certification, as well as the need for more training in marketing and demand to impact local farmers, this conclusion indicates that additional outlets are not the only tools the city has to support local, especially small scale, agriculture.

ADB operations began in India in 1986. Between 1986 and year end 2010, ADB approved 143 loans amounting to $23.0 billion and 306 technical assistance projects amounting to $227 million on a cumulative basis for India. More than 75% of this assistance covers the transport, energy, and urban sectors. In recent years, ADB has also been providing support for improving water resource management, promoting financial inclusion, and facilitating public-private partnerships in infrastructure. Today, ADB operations cover 22 states of India. India has been among the top three borrowers of ADB's Ordinary Capital Resources (OCR) loans since 2007. ADB remains committed to supporting the Government's efforts towards making India's growth inclusive and environmentally sustainable. This country brief summarizes how the partnership of the Asian Development Bank and the Government of India has been instrumental to the development of the country.