Publications and media
Development Challenges in Latin America
Despite remarkable economic dynamism and poverty reduction over the past decade, Latin America must still overcome many socioeconomic challenges to achieve sustainable development. Against a backdrop...
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Creating Access to Agricultural Finance - Based on a horizontal study of Cambodia, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Th...
Inadequate financing of the agricultural sector remains a major constraint in developing countries. Despite the existence of genuine financial needs of large magnitude, financial institutions face dif...
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Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender a...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Ori...
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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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Gender disparities in Africa‘s labor market
Gender Disparities in Africa‘s Labor Market helps to fill the knowledge gap and identify the links between gender disparities and poverty reduction. The work was implemented in collaboration with a ra...
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Cotton and Poverty in West Africa: a Comparative Analysis of Household Living Conditions in Mali and Burkina F...
The present study is made up of three sections. The first lays out the terms of the debate on the “Sikasso paradox” as a preamble. The second offers a statistical diagnosis of the standards of living...
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What Microfinance for Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Between 2005 and 2007 the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) conducted several ex post evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in both urban and rural areas. A specific foc...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Ethiopia Field Survey
This report is an integral part of the survey and analysis work launched by the Research Department of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) on training in the informa...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the BENIN Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Development, a question of opportunity?
The World Bank‘s World Development Report 2006 published in September 2005 addresses Equity and Development. The report defines equity as respect for equal opportunities combined with the avoidance of...
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What role can food vouchers play in strengthening climate resilience?
Climate change threatens to intensify poverty, inequality and food insecurity. In countries like the Philippines, extreme weather (cyclones, floods or droughts) could disrupt livelihoods and exacerbat...
AFD International Conference on Development : Inequalities and Social Cohesion - Synthesis
On December 6th and 7th of 2018, the 13th International AFD Conference - Inequalities and Social Cohesion was held in Paris. It aimed to bring together specialists on the issues of inequality and soci...
Conference inequalities and social cohesion programme - 6/12
Programme conférence inégalités et lien social - 6/12
The EU-AFD Facility on Inequalities (2026-2028): Making Global Gateway Investments Work for Inclusion
Building on nearly ten years of collaboration, the European Union (EU) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have launched the third phase of the Facility on Inequalities. Taking a more operatio...
