Publications and media
Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...
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Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean
Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and envi...
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Overextraction of Groundwater Resources: What Are The Solutions?
The amount of water extracted from aquifers worldwide has increased threefold in the past fifty years, leading to an aggravated overdraft of these common resources. This “pumping race” brings about ma...
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Fair Trade? Yes, but not at Christmas! Evidence from scanner data on real French Fairtrade purchases
Responsible consumption based on labels arouses enthusiasm among the community of development (donors, NGOs, researchers, policy makers). Indeed, information provision may appear as a “third wave” of...
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Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?
In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...
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Agricultural Credit: Assessing the Use of Interest Rate Subsidies
Since the beginning of the 20th century, interest rate subsidies have been one of the tools used all around the world for developing agriculture, especially by major agricultural countries such as Fra...
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Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities: The Example of Bamako, Mali
"In any city, the price and quality of housing is so influenced by what land is available for housing, under what terms, with what services, and at what cost. This book provides a very rich and detail...
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Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure : The Power and Water Sectors
This book evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans...
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Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing wor...
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Safety Nets in Africa : Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable
The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world‘s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be see...
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The Quality of Growth: Accounting for Sustainability
This paper has three purposes. First, it follows the UN conceptual and measurement approach in providing a welfare theoretic framework for sustainability. The intergenerational conditions for sustaina...
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Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success
For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...
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Integrating Marginalized Neighborhoods into Cities: Tomorrow‘s Challenge
Urban growth is spreading mainly in the cities of the South, and the populations of marginalized neighborhoods are expected to double and reach 2 billion in 2030. It is unrealistic to imagine a future...
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Quality Signaling through Certification in Developing Countries
This paper studies how the signaling of the credence attributes of consumer goods distorts their market equilibrium in developing countries. Costs of certification, sunk in order to achieve credibilit...
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Panorama of the Urban and Municipal Sector in India
La transition urbaine de l'Inde aura des impacts majeurs ces vingt prochaines années. En comparaison à la moyenne mondiale (50 %), le taux d'urbanisation du pays, situé juste au-dessus de 30 %, est en...
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely...
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The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des expert...
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Knowledge Production at AFD - Issues and Orientations
AFD has a dual mandate to finance sustainable development and produce knowledge. The second aspect of this mandate aims to enhance strategies and provide concrete responses to the challenges of povert...
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The challenges of India‘s economic policy
Over the 1990s and 2000s, India experienced a remarkable acceleration in its rate of economic growth comparable in the mid-2000s to that of its neighbour China. This economic “take-off”, which was par...
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Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to t...
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