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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 world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation
Published in January 2015
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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 in Africa’s main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines
Published in January 2015
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Inspiring children and uplifting the city through sports
The city centre of Johannesburg, historically the heart of the city's economic activity, has seen a sharp decline since the 1970s: many buildings were abandoned, public spaces were left in decline and the crime rate rose sharply. This is particularly visible in public parks. Since the 2000s, the
Published in December 2019
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Cities and Food Systems: Rethinking the role of markets
This note is based on a research program carried out by AFD since 2014 to assess the role of food markets in African cities and to shift to a more holistic approach of “food systems”, considering many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on case studies led in Rabat-Salé in Morocco, Niamey
Published in October 2020
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Methods for the Economic Valuation of Urban Heritage: A Sustainability-based Approach
Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such patrimony is generally a complex reality, consisting of four interdependent economic, cultural, social and
Published in October 2012
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Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited - Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World
Many late developing countries face tremendous challenges: They have to deal simultaneously with their economic and demographic transitions in the context of globalization and under the constraints of climate change. Based on new evidence from an in-depth survey that included 8,000 rural households
Published in January 2012
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Characterizing and analyzing urban dynamics in Bogota
Containing crime without affecting the livability of the urban environment is a major challenge in our society. Traditionally, researchers relate crime to socio-economic disorganization and people’s routine activity, as it influences effective control and suitable targets. An important open
Published in June 2017
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Prescriptions for inclusion in construction/worksite ESMPS to strengthen Covid-19 health control
This document provides prescriptions to be integrated into the health and safety sections of environmental and social management plans and systems of projects financed by the French Agency for Development (AFD) and that are currently in a construction (or pre-construction) phase.
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Published in May 2020
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Impacts of Rural Electrification Revisited: The African Context
The investment requirements to achieve the United Nations’ universal electricity access goal by 2030 are estimated at 640 billion US Dollars. The assumption underlying this goal is that electrification contributes to poverty alleviation in many regards. In recent years, a body of literature has
Published in December 2015
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Mining in Africa : Are Local Communities Better Off?
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national
Published in January 2017
