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Virtual universities in Africa: The challenges that need to be overcome
An increasing number of African nations now offer virtual universities. This is an appropriate (though partial) response to the challenge of the massification of higher education. However, the rollout...
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The minerals essential to the energy and digital transitions: An opportunity for Africa?
With the acceleration of the energy and digital transitions, global demand for critical minerals has grown exponentially in recent years. Africa, with its extensive and still relatively unexploited re...
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« GRANDES LIGNES »| EPISODE 6: GENDER & DIGITAL LABOUR IN ARGENTINA
« Grandes Lignes » is the podcast of Éditions Agence française de développement which deciphers in less than 20 minutes the major questions of research on sustainable development with AFD experts....
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The Commons
The Commons explores the many forms of development being championed by Africa’s residents, users, and citizens. In addition to managing property and shared tangible and intangible resources collective...
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Digital freedoms in French-speaking African countries
As digital penetration increases in countries across the African continent, its citizens face growing risks and challenges. Indeed, beyond facilitated access to knowledge such as the online encycloped...
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Delivering public interest goods in Africa. Stopgap measures, state reform, and commons
Given the polysemy of the concept of “commons,” we use the concept of “public interest goods,” the content of which varies according to historical situations. In Africa, different institutions (modes...
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Improving the daily lives of Namibians with microfinance
In Namibia, in collaboration with the local post office NamPost and its microfinance subsidiary Postfin, the Agence française de développement supports retirees’ access to financial services, while pr...
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The Proof is in the Pudding. Revealing the SDGs with Artificial Intelligence
The use of frontier technologies in the field of sustainability is likely to accompany its visibility, and the quality of information available to decision makers. This paper explores the possibility...
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E-commerce tax: an opportunity for Africa?
The digital transformation does away with the need for multinational enterprises to be physically present in the countries where they operate. This poses a major challenge in terms of taxation and los...
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Measuring the impact of development projects using geospatial impact evaluation methods
Geospatial impact evaluation (GIE) methods were developed because of the increasing availability of geospatial data. They are particularly suited to evaluating the impact of development aid programmes...
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Trade: An Empirical Analysis
The paper proposes an empirical analysis of the determinants of the adoption of intellectual property rights (IPR) and their impact on innovation in manufacturing. The analysis is conducted with panel...
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Building Data Infrastructure in Development Contexts: Lessons from the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge
COVID-19 and other societal threats hamper the ability of development practitioners and stakeholders to address public needs. Bolstering society’s ability to responsibly access, re-use and generate in...
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in...
This article inspects how the expansion of the platform economy affects gender inequalities, in some new forms as well in reinforcing pre-existing ones. It focuses on two platform occupations in the B...
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Labour market trajectories and conciliation efforts among female Uber drivers
This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platfor...
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Precarisation or Protection? The Impact of Digital Platform Labour on Argentinean Domestic Workers in Times of...
The article analyses how the platform economy affects the domestic service sector, focusing particularly on the issue of workers’ formalisation. It looks at Zolvers, the only digital platform for dome...
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Regulating platform delivery work in Argentina. Tensions between regulations and the priorities of workers
The quarantine imposed in March 2020 shed light on the essential labour performed by digital delivery platforms’ workers and their precarious labour conditions. In order to protect them, seven draft b...
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Labour transitions that lead to platform work: Towards increased formality? Evidence from Argentina
The recent growth of the platform economy as a tool for labour exchanges has brought about concerns on the overall quality of jobs created. As labour platforms leave a digital trace, this paper assess...
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Agricultural information systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking the role of governments in the age of priva...
Information systems play a key role in agricultural risk management strategies and production and marketing decision optimisation strategies. This makes them an important tool for poverty reduction in...
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Alex Chunet: "At AFD, we use artificial intelligence to analyze imagery"
A partnership agreement was signed between AFD and the National Space Study Center to promote the adoption by AFD of geospatial technologies for its research and development projects. This new collab...
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In Laos, technology for heritage protection
To better identify and protect the historic sites of Champasak and Vat Phu, the EFEO is deploying a special technology: a LIDAR survey. Using a laser, this technology makes it possible to locate ancie...
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AFD Group, a partner for your development projects in Southeast Asia
AFD Group has been active in Southeast Asia for over 25 years. Find out what its strategic priorities are in the region and how it can support your projects to improve their impact! ©AFD2021
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