Publications and media
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...
Published on
Transitions Decreed, Transitions Experienced From Global to Local: Methodological, Cross-cutting and Critical ...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, École française d’Extrême-Orient (ÉFEO) a...
Published on
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...
Published on
Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the yea...
Published on
Linking Labour Organisation and Vocational Training in Uganda: lessons for rural poverty reduction
This study examines the conditions for effective skills development to reduce rural poverty in Uganda. It is shown that the capacity of the vocational education and training system, despite its ongoin...
Published on
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...
Published on
Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future
This paper is the executive summary of a collective publication: Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future, edited by Benoît Ferry. This study was born out of a workshop on demography...
Published on
Youth and Labour Markets in Africa : A critical review of literature
This survey of literature focuses mainly on economic research done on Sub-Saharan Africa, although some references are reviewed for North Africa. It stresses that an assessment of youth employment pro...
Published on
Culture and development : a review of literature
Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a vocabulary for distinguishing one group of people from another in terms of their dif...
Published on
Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Angola 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...
Published on
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...
Published on
The Brain Drain: What Do we Know?
For the last decades, the pace of international migration has accelerated. The number of international migrants increased from 154 to 175 million between 1990 and 2000 and is nearing 200 million in th...
Published on
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...
Published on
Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Cameroon Field Survey
Cameroon was originally chosen as one of the five sample countries for the field survey on vocational training in the informal sector because it stands out among the subSaharan African countries. (......
Published on
Vocational Training in the Informal Sector
The AFD, with support from the international network of experts, GEFOP, proposes to conduct an in-depth study on the conditions and forms of investment in training in the informal sector. (...)
Published on
