Alain Goulard
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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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Economic Development: Is Social Capital Persistent?
This paper, on the one hand, goes a step closer to demonstrate the causality of social capital on economic performance. On the other hand, we confirm a continued role of social capital effects on economic performance in this paper by using a much larger sample, spanning three decades and increasing...
Published in December 2015
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Powering Africa: Facing the Financing and Reform Challenges
Africa faces chronic power problems, including insufficient generation capacity, low connectivity, poor reliability and high costs, all of which constrain development. Power capacity additions in Sub-Saharan Africa (excl. SA) since the 1990’s were minuscule. Historically, investments in the power...
Published in December 2015
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Green Growth and its Implications for Public Policy: The Case of South Africa
South Africa is a rapidly growing middle-income economy with a coal-based energy system that generates high greenhouse gases emissions, on a par with the richest economies in the world. The country has pledged to significantly reduce its emissions (by 34% in 2020 and by 42% in 2025 relative to...
Published in December 2015
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AFD and capacity development support
In the poorest countries, the weak capacities of project initiators, both public (ministries, local authorities) and private (banks, local companies, professional organizations), are often the first barriers to rapid, sustainable and inclusive economic development. These countries are often...
Published in December 2015
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The use of multi-bi aid by France in comparison with other donor countries
This study provides an analysis of the French usage of multi-bi aid in comparison to other large donors of development assistance. Using a diverse set of methods, including document analysis, interview evidence, and state-of-the-art statistical methods, it seeks to identify general trends in the...
Published in November 2015
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Facilitating green skills and jobs in developing countries
Des emplois et des compétences intégrants mieux les enjeux environnementaux sont indispensables pour à la fois lutter contre le changement climatique et s’adapter à ses effets. La transition vers une économie faible en carbone représente également une opportunité afin de créer un nombre important...
Published in November 2015
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Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico: an application of the ThreeME model
This document offers an empirical application of the notion of energy transition to the Mexican economy and it takes the next step of simulating medium- and long-term impacts of proposed and future energy and fiscal policy on the environment and the Mexican economy. The starting point of the...
Published in November 2015
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Double Dividend of Low-carbon Growth in Mexico: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Assessment
This paper simulates the medium- and long-term impact of proposed and expected energy policy on the environment and on the Mexican economy. The analysis has been conducted with a Multi-sector Macroeconomic Model for the Evaluation of Environmental and Energy policy (Three-ME). This model is well...
Published in November 2015
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AFD and sustainable urban transport and mobility
Urban mobility is a core challenge for cities. In order to ensure that development is sustainable, inclusive and economically effective, the challenge lies in limiting the congestion that hinders cities and comes with an increase in air pollution, CO2 emissions and a high road traffic death rate...
Published in November 2015
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Creating Alliances to Accelerate Commercially Viable Sanitation - Lessons learned from the toilet board coalition and its market-based initiatives
The past decades have seen a growing appreciation of the role of market-based approaches in driving global development. Many coalitions of public and private players have emerged to promote them. How best to trigger and support these market-based approaches? How to leverage the expertise and...
Published in November 2015
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Actors and networks of agroecology in the Greater Mekong Subregion
A comparative analysis of agroecology network led to a classification based on their conditions of emergence, their structure and governance mechanisms. The study points the strengths and weaknesses of the existing networks at the different scales. It shows that the different agroecology schools...
Published in October 2015
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Energy and Development in Emerging Countries
Energy is an important component of the economy and is a fundamental factor of production. In general we expect is use to grow in some relation to growth in economic activity. Empirically we see a closer relationship (higher E/GDP elasticity) in emerging economies where the energy intensive...
Published in October 2015
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Evaluation Summary - District development facility (DDF), Ghana
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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 partly driven by private investment, was anchored in the country’s strong positioning on different...
Published in September 2015
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A Glance at Sustainable Urban Development - Methodological, Crosscutting and Operational Approaches
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 21th to 29th July 2014 at the University of Da Lat on the topic of "A Glance at Sustainable Urban Development". Four main areas of reflection are prioritised in the...
Published on 31 Aug 2017
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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 France, the United States, and Brazil. However, a general consensus against their use now exists...
Published in July 2015
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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 (1850) and 2100. The 2015 Paris Climate conference aims to determine the actions that each country...
Published in July 2015
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Brochure AFD and energy transition in island territories
In the energy sector, island states and France’s overseas territories have a number of common characteristics that are specific to isolated systems: absence of local fossil resources, high cost of fuel supplies, power generation capacity mainly based on fossil-based power plants, small power...
Published in July 2015