Publications and media
Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness for SMEs in Developing Countries: South Africa and Vietnam
Les PME sont souvent accusées de traîner pour mettre en place des pratiques de RSE. Pourtant, cette perception résulte plus d'une application d'un mode de pensée propre aux grandes entreprises. Cette...
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PEFA Methodology and Sub-National Governments: What Lessons for AFD?
The analysis of the application of the PEFA framework methodology to sub-national entities, developed here through the examination of 56 evaluation reports, and based on the practical experience of te...
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Methods for the Economic Valuation of Urban Heritage: A Sustainability-based Approach
Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such patrimony is general...
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Export diversification in the franc zone: its extent, sophistication and dynamics
It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The...
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Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Microcredit has rapidly expanded in recent years, providing access to financial services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However, whether it helps the poor has bee...
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Access to Water and Militant Uses of the Law - A Case Study in Soweto
At the end of apartheid, in 1994, hopes for political, economic and social renewal are emerging in South Africa. Among the preoccupations of the new ANC government: wipe out inequalities and generaliz...
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The environmental challenges faced by a Chinese oil company in Chad
The surge in Chinese investments in Africa has brought about a flurry of questions expressing concern over their ecological impact in the host countries. Still, the principles and implementation of en...
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Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs
The World Bank's strategy for Africa's future recognizes the central importance of industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the consequent creation of productive jobs for Africans, which have long...
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Financing Africa‘s Cities : The Imperative of Local Investment
African countries confront vast economic, social, and environmental challenges. Although urban issues bear upon many of these challenges, they have remained a secondary priority for governments and th...
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The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa - Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
As Africa grows and modernizes, it is crucial to understand how to better translate these positive trends into poverty reduction through productive employment, especially for the 7–10 million young pe...
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The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the eco...
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Practical Case of Resident Technical Assistance. Lessons Learned from Support to the Education Sector in Mauri...
Since the Paris Declaration, the topic of “capacity development” has gained considerable momentum in the reflection on Official Development Assistance (ODA). The international community had previously...
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How Can We Capitalize on the Demographic Dividend? Demographics at the Heart of Development Pathways
In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market bet...
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Student Loans: Liquidity Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Although primary education is almost universal in South Africa, and secondary schooling has very wide outreach, higher education has become a severe problem in this emerging country. Enrollment stands...
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Analysis of the Determinants of the Demand for Financial Services in Rural Morocco
This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, whic...
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Water services and the private sector in developing countries. Comparative perceptions and discussion dynamics
During the past twenty years, participation of the private sector in the field of essential services has been a topic of much discussion, allowing the expression of very different viewpoints and the m...
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Rainfed Food Crops in West and Central Africa: Points for Analysis and Proposals for Action
The rise in world agricultural prices in 2008 revealed the fragility of food security in many developing countries. Poor populations in sub-Saharan Africa are the biggest victims of this fragility. Ra...
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Challenges for African Agriculture
This book focuses squarely on the future of Sub-Saharan African agriculture and agriculture’s role in the subcontinent’s development. It reveals the scope of the demographic, economic, and environment...
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Contemporary migration to South Africa - A Regional Development Issue
This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are devoted almost exclusively to bord...
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Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience
There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and...
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Soweto Water Project | 2005 - 2010 | A filmed evaluation
The Operation "Gcin'amanzi" (Zulu for "water conservation") in Soweto is one of the country's most ambitious water-related projects. In post-apartheid South Africa the project was essential. Since the...
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