Alain Goulard
Library
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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 problems in African countries requires a (still missing) clear diagnosis based on hard data and...
Published in December 2007
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A Comparative Study of Evaluation Policies and Practices in Development agencies
This study was commissioned to map and compare evaluation practices across development agencies, primarily with a view to stimulate an internal debate within AFD on its evaluation systems during a time of reform. However, the report can stimulate a wider debate within the development evaluation...
Published in December 2007
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Turkey: Overview and Perspectives
The report is the outcome of four months of collaboration between AFD and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management to examine existing CSR stakeholder initiatives and practices in Turkey. Between 2005 and 2006, a literature review, field visits and face-to-face interviews with key public...
Published in December 2007
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Fostering Impact Evaluation at the Agence Française de Développement: a process of building in-house ownership and capacities
In 2006, the Evaluation Unit of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) was incorporated into the Research Department in order to integrate a research strand into the work of evaluation. This new approach has led AFD to undertake rigorous impact evaluations in partnership with academic teams...
Published in December 2007
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Regional Trade Agreements and Developing Countries: the Case of the Independent Pacific Island States
The present paper corresponds to Robert Scollay’s contribution at the conference organized by Agence Française de Développement with its CEROM partners on 26 June 2007 in Paris (Maison de la Chimie) on the topic: “Opening the French Overseas Territories for a sustainable growth?”
Published in November 2007
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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 differing systems of meaning, patterns of behaviour, or levels of technology. They have also...
Published in November 2007
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AFD-funded Resident Technical Assistance
Since the CICID (Inter-ministerial Committee for International Co-operation and Development) meeting in 2005, sectoral capacity-building now falls under AFD’s responsibility/remit. At the same time, technical assistance has become an entirely separate intervention modality for AFD. In 2007, the...
Published in November 2007
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A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"
The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first version of the database, published in 2001, covered 51 countries. The next survey will take place...
Published in September 2007
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Governance of Renewable Natural Resources: Concepts, Methods and Tools
L’approche des questions relatives à l’environnement et à la gestion des ressources naturelles a évolué rapidement au cours des quinze dernières années. Outre de nouvelles mesures d’incitation, c’est l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs et de nouvelles formes de gouvernance qui a profondément marqué...
Published in September 2007
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Potential Financial Frameworks for a Sustainable UNEO
A recent study undertaken by COWI, a Danish consultancy, and co-financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agence Française de Développement examines the potential financial frameworks for a future United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO), according to the possible future...
Published in June 2007
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Economic Partnership Agreements and Regional Trade Flow Dynamics: The ECOWAS Case
The Cotonou Agreement, signed in June 2000, has as its central objective "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty consistent with the objectives of sustainable development and the gradual integration of the ACP countries into the world economy" (article 1). Yet, several voices have spoken up...
Published in June 2007
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Public Private Partnerships in Water and Electricity in Africa
The paper analyzes the costs and benefits of private participation in the electricity and water industries in SubSaharan Africa. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the participation of private unregulated firms in the supply of services for the middle class and poor is fairly common in the region....
Published in January 2007
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Successful Companies in the Developing World
In the developing countries, one can find extremely high-performing companies. What is their secret? Do they faithfully replicate best practices that have proved their worth in the most advanced economies? Or do they adopt creative approaches to management by leveraging the cultural resources...
Published in January 2007
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Accompanying Measures Are Needed
The Cotonou agreements announce the end of preferential agreements by envisaging a renewed partnership, based on reciprocity, between the European Union and six regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). These economic partnership agreements (EPAs) are better able to meet the new...
Published in January 2007