Alain Goulard
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Toward a Joint Management of Transboundary Aquifer Systems
Aquifer systems, which can contain a major part of the accessible water resources of a country, are often imperfectly known. However, and much more commonly than transboundary rivers, many aquifers are shared between several countries that use this resource in an independent and generally...
Published in December 2011
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Measure for Measure - How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2010
Actes de la huitième conférence AFD-EUDN, qui avait réuni plus de 1 000 participants originaires de 30 pays. Les débats portaient sur une question cruciale : la mesure du développement et, donc, sa nature même. Savons-nous vraiment ce que nous entendons par « développement » si nous ne sommes...
Published in December 2011
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Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Microcredit has rapidly expanded in recent years, providing access to financial services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However, whether it helps the poor has been a subject of intense debate for which, until very recently, there was no rigorous evidence. This...
Published in October 2011
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Analysis of the Determinants of the Demand for Financial Services in Rural Morocco
This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, which began in 2006, capitalised on the start of Al Amana‘s activities in rural areas and aimed to...
Published in October 2011
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AFD Municipal Development Project in the Palestinian Territories
Municipalities in the Palestinian Territories constitute one of the oldest forms of governance. With seventy percent of the West Bank’s population living in 107 municipalities (the entire population of Gaza lives in 25 municipalities), local governments have served as a main reference point for...
Published in September 2011
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Student Loans: Liquidity Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Although primary education is almost universal in South Africa, and secondary schooling has very wide outreach, higher education has become a severe problem in this emerging country. Enrollment stands at about 15%, a low figure for a country at this level of development. The black and colored...
Published in September 2011
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, École française d’Extrême-Orient (ÉFEO) and Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) have decided to hold a social sciences summer...
Published in July 2011
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The AFD Carbon Footprint Tool for projects - User’s Guide and Methodology
AFD (Agence Française de Développement) aims to promote low-carbon development through the projects it finances, in line with France’s commitment to combat climate change and AFD’s strategic orientation plan. AFD’s multi-pronged policy rests, in part, on measuring financed projects’ carbon...
Published on 13 Oct 2017
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Peasants Against Private Property Rights: A Review of the Literature
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Thailand: The World‘s Leading Exporter of Natural Rubber Owing to its Smallholders
Thailand is currently the world‘s leading exporter of natural rubber, accounting for 33% of the annual volume traded. In addition to its quantitative performance, the case of Thailand is noteworthy in that this output is driven by smallholders, who own 95% of the total area planted with rubber...
Published in January 2011
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Contemporary migration to South Africa - A Regional Development Issue
This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are devoted almost exclusively to border control and policing; they pay only lip service to local and regional developmental...
Published on 29 Jan 2018
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