Just a few weeks away from the 47th Angoulême International Comics Festival, the capital of comic strips will be exporting the expertise it has built up in cultural and creative industries over the last twenty years to Mexico, thanks to a cooperation project supported by AFD.
On March 20, AFD and the Mexican Finance Ministry signed a new public policy loan agreement. This loan from AFD also marks the official start of a green and inclusive support program for Mexico. In a country hit hard by climate change, what are the issues being addressed by this program?
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Sylvain Bellefontaine
Acting to safeguard biodiversity
Mexico, one of the six most biodiverse countries in the world, has adopted a new strategy for the sustainable management of ecosystems, which has been seriously undermined for several years.
Anda DAVID
Urban land-based commons for housing in the Global South
International economy: new landscape against the backdrop of déjà vu
As part of our “Shared Innovation” series, AFD is highlighting innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries.
The Mexican NGO Cobi and local fishers have developed a new smart phone app that enables fishers to track and monitor animal populations, including birds, sea...
Our office in Mexico
Based in Mexico, the Central America Regional Division covers two countries in the region: Mexico and Cuba.
Evaluating the Covid-19 redistributive policies in Mexico and Colombia
Strong sustainability, the principle that our natural resources are critical and cannot be replaced by any other form of capital, is enjoying a resurgence in development thinking. It’s a riposte to the notion that physical capital, such as machinery or technological advances can be a substitute...
Public policies, private higher education development and inequalities
Inequalities, social mobility and perceptions in Mexico
The evaluations carried out in 2017 and 2018 show that policy-based loans are an ambitious and potentially powerful tool that enables AFD to foreground its strengths. However, AFD needs to improve its appraisal and implementation modalities to guarantee the quality of its support.
The Inequality Research Facility, a program funded by the European Union and coordinated by AFD, aims to better understand economic and social inequalities in low- and middle-income countries in order to develop more targeted public policies. After a highly productive first phase in some 30...