Research

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 assesses whether platforms can help to increase registered labour in contexts of extended informality...

« 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. EPISODE 6 : GENDER & DIGITAL LABOUR IN ARGENTINA According to...

Argentina is generally considered as the typical middle-class country in Latin America. Yet, while the successive crises that have hit the Argentinean economy over the four last decades have obviously affected both the size and stability of its middle class, academic studies are lacking on the...

With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By keeping a closer eye on threats to marine wildlife, officials will be better placed to protect...

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 multiplication of disciplinary approaches around this question. However, little work has been...

In 2020, the Province of Santa Fe, the third most populous in Argentina, announced that it would vote a gender-responsive budget for the year 2021 for several programs. AFD is supporting its implementation – the latest in a series of moves to incorporate questions of gender in public policy.

Based in Buenos Aires, AFD's Argentina office is attached to the Brazil - Southern Cone Regional Division.

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 bills were proposed to Congress in Argentina, oscillating between a salaried/independent classifi...

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 domestic workers in Argentina, and uses a mixed method approach to inspect workers’ relationship...

The ecological transition calls for the mobilization of all actors: States, companies, citizens... and cities. All over the world, some have not waited for the latest alarming IPCC report to take action. A focus on 5 model cities.

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 platform. It also asks how female drivers balance between paid labour and care responsibilities. The...

Argentina is generally considered as the typical middle-class country in Latin America. Yet, while the successive crises that have hit the Argentinean economy over the four last decades have obviously affected both the size and stability of its middle class, academic studies are lacking on the...

Since 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and AFD, in partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), have been supporting the...

This document presents the strategy of the Regional Office for Brazil-Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay), established in September 2017 and located in Brasilia. The strategy covers the period 2020-2024. AFD Group operates in...