Alain Goulard
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In response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020-2021 the South African government instituted various economic relief and stimulus programmes. These included substantial increases to social grant disbursements, and a large new targeted jobs programme. Potential “spillover” or “...
Published in January 2024
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Getting from Good Intentions to Effective Action: A Proposal for a Just Transition Partnering Implementation Model in South Africa
The paper calls for implementation plans arising from the just transition framework in South Africa to be based on an explicit collaborative and adaptive approach and proposes a Partnering Implementation Model (PIM) to move from good intentions to implementation. The paper points to recurring...
Published in July 2023
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AFD Group and the Public-Private Partnerships
The countries where AFD Group works are experiencing strong growth and urbanization. As a result, they need more inclusive infrastructures and basic services that are structuring for their economies and responding to the essential needs of their populations.
By mobilizing the...
Published in August 2022
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Making financial systems more inclusive and accountable
Financial inclusion gives everyone, everywhere, access to essential and customized financial services. Through its projects worldwide, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has made this theme one of the main pillars of its activities in the financial sector. With Hugo Lecué and Cosimo...
Published in August 2022
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Innovation, a driver of sustainable financial systems
Innovation is driving the transition of financial systems in AFD's partner countries, encouraging them to move towards a more sustainable and inclusive development model. The use of digital technology and new financial tools is also changing the way that actors in the field operate.
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Published in August 2022
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Mental Health and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region: An Analysis of Shock Related Factors Within the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper investigates the potential associations between factors that affected households during the pandemic (such as food insecurity) and the gendered mental health inequalities in the MENA region. To analyze these potential associations, the paper used data from the World Health...
Published in May 2022
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Selected MENA Countries
COVID-19 is testing food and social protection systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an unprecedented scale. Countries responded by expanding social safety nets (SSNs) and/or distributing new cash transfers. We estimate if and to what extent SSNs have mitigated food...
Published in May 2022
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Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Industrialization drives the sustained growth in jobs and productivity that marks the developmental take-off of most developed economies. Yet, academics and policy makers have questioned the role of manufacturing in development for late industrializers, especially in view of rapid advancements...
Published in November 2021
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The Public Payment Guarantee
The AFD Group supports the development of inclusive and resilient infrastructure in the countries where it operates. Such infrastructure ensures access for populations to essential goods and services such as energy, transportation, healthcare, water and sanitation.
Long-term partnerships...
Published in June 2021
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100% Social Link - 2021-2025 Strategy
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition Strategy
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The role of social housing in reducing inequality in South African cities
Social housing is a powerful tool to integrate divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families. It can bring communities together in dense urban areas with plentiful opportunities, and revitalise run down inner cities. Success depends on...
Published in February 2021
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Distributional Effects of Healthcare Spending: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia
The distribution of both public healthcare spending and overall healthcare spending has become increasingly egalitarian in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia, according to a new study. Nevertheless, there remain significant regional differences within countries. In addition, limitations in data...
Published in January 2021
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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South Africa
More could be done to improve the chances of upward mobility for tenants of social housing in South Africa. The social housing policy makes no mention of upward mobility for tenants, even though this is implicit within the objectives of reducing socio-economic and spatial inequalities. We...
Published in November 2020
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Funding Sources of National Development Banks
Access to large, long-term, and stable funding sources is a prerequisite for achieving the objectives of national development banks (NDBs). By systematically collecting data on the funding sources of NDBs worldwide, we are the first to answer the questions of what are the main types of funding...
Published in October 2020
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Perceptions of Inequality and Social Mobility in Mexico
Despite evidence of high inequality and low social mobility throughout the world, there has been only limited demand for change. Using new survey and experimental data, we investigate how perceptions about inequality and social mobility affect preferences for redistribution in Mexico. In...
Published in February 2020
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Social Mobility in Mexico. What Can We Learn from Its Regional Variation?
We run rank-rank regressions to estimate relative and absolute upward intergenerational social mobility of wealth in Mexico. At the national level, social mobility is low and the intergenerational persistence rate is high: 0.62. In terms of absolute upward mobility, those born in households at...
Published in February 2020
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Making Food a “Common Good”: Lessons From Three Experiences to Fight Malnutrition
Food supply is caught in a powerful paradox. The right to food is one of the most established and codified human rights. However, almost a billion people – one person out of nine – currently suffer from malnutrition. There are essentially three explanations to this. First, hyper concentrated and...
Published in January 2020
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