Alain Goulard
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Climate: Taking action for a more sustainable financial system
Actors in the financial system play an essential role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in combating climate disruption. AFD Group works alongside financial institutions and regulators in the field to build long-term sustainable economic, social, and environmental...
Published in March 2024
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L'économie africaine 2024 : English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
We are currently facing a systemic crisis, where geopolitical tensions and structural failures are inextricably linked, as are diplomacy and development. The growth trajectories that many countries have been following for almost two centuries are now running into problems: the environment being...
Published in January 2024
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Vietnam at a crossroads: avoiding the middle-income trap while addressing climate challenges
Following three decades of strong growth (7% on average) which enabled the country to eradicate extreme poverty and reach middle-income status, Vietnam continues to offer highly attractive prospects. Socio-political stability, a cautious policy mix, continually high economic growth, and the size...
Published on 10 Jan 2024
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« GRANDES LIGNES »| EPISODE 10 : CLIMATE-FINANCIAL TRAP
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Socioeconomic and spatially-explicit assessment of Nature-related risks: the case of South Africa
This study introduces new methods for evaluating nature-related socioeconomic risks in the South African context, anchored on two main contributions. Firstly, it embarks on a multidimensional analysis of the exposure of several macro-financial and social variables to nature-related risks. Based...
Published in December 2023
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International Financial Architecture and Financial Engineering for the Climate and Nature
The COP climate and biodiversity negotiations often focus on the issue of the financial resources that are mobilized or need to be mobilized for action and investment related to the climate or biodiversity. The succession of recent crises and global events (Covid-19, war in Ukraine, inflation...
Published in October 2023
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Peru: in need of fresh stimulus
Driven by the boom in its mining sector and its rigorous macroeconomic policies, since the early 2000s Peru has experienced a period of spectacular development, described as the “Peruvian Miracle”. Nominal GDP in US dollar terms has increased almost fivefold over the last 20 years and the...
Published in October 2023
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Climate-financial trap: an empirical approach to detecting situations of double vulnerability
The present study proposes to build a systematic approach to detecting and specifying situations of double vulnerability. Double vulnerability refers to a situation where a country combines climate and macro-financial vulnerabilities. It is defined as a situation where climate change (either in...
Published in October 2023
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Financial Systems – 2022 Activity Report
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Infographic – Our Activity to Support Financial Systems in 2022
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International economy: new landscape against the backdrop of déjà vu
Since the last edition of our publication MacroDev Semestrial in February 2023, international economic developments have remained eventful and intense, against the backdrop of the continued global geopolitical reconfiguration. They are not without consequences for emerging and developing...
Published on 18 Aug 2023
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Evaluation Highlights: In Tunisia, the emergence of a sustainable microfinance sector
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Counter-cyclical Responses: How Development Banks helped the Covid-19 Recovery, and Lessons for the Future
The objective of this paper is to shed light on the crucial and varied counter-cyclical roles played by development banks across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons learned for future shocks. It presents empirical evidence, case-studies and findings from a large number of in-...
Published on 03 Jul 2023
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Evaluation of AFD - Bank of Kigali projects (2011 – 2022), Rwanda (CRW1023-CRW1045-CRW1046)
The overall objectives of the projects with Bank of Kigali were to support the expansion in the bank’s corporate loan portfolio, specifically to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), by reducing the bank’s asset and liability mismatch and improving its ability to provide medium to long-...
Published in May 2023
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How can accounting reformulate the debate on natural capital and help implement its ecological approach?
This paper shows that the mainstream usage of ‘natural capital’ (NC) is incompatible with an ecological approach. It argues that accounting is relevant for (re)structuring the debate around NC and implementing an alternative approach to NC that works with an ecological perspective.It first...
Published on 06 Mar 2023
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Looking back at 15 years of AFD support for geographical indications: what contribution to sustainable development? How to do better?
There is a long history behind the use of origin marking. Producers and consumers are familiar with products such as Parma ham, Darjeeling tea, Colombian coffee or Champagne. These are just some examples of many origin-marked products. The World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related...
Published in February 2023
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Emerging and Developing Countries: The Noose is Tightening
The dual shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has pushed up inflation to an extent not seen in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock has put an end to two decades of disinflation imported from China and other emerging and developing countries...
Published in February 2023
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From Multi- to National- and Back Again: Realizing the SDG Potential of Public Development Banks
Public multilateral (MDBs) and national development banks (NDBs) are already working to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
But can they do more to help deliver finance at the right pace and scale and on the terms appropriate for catalyzing global green and just...
Published in January 2023
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Angola: a vital but constrained transformation of the economic model in the run-up to the 2022 elections?
The country is therefore approaching the general elections of August 24, 2022 in a changing economic and political environment. Lourenço, who is running for president, will be able to claim that the economic situation has improved during his term. Indeed, 2021 was marked by a return to growth...
Published in January 2023
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Biodiversity and financial instability with Julien Calas
The collapse of biodiversity threatens the financial system because there are two types of crisis: the physical crisis and the transition crisis. Whatever the type of crisis, if the problem becomes widespread, the entire financial system risks being destabilized or disrupted. To understand the...
Published in December 2022