Alain Goulard
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“Multiple, polarized and vulnerable”: A socio-economic exploration of Ghana’s middle class
By using mixed quantitative-qualitative methods combining micro-data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2016-2017 (GLSS7) and original qualitative data collected from semi-structured interviews in 2022, the present study provides a deeper and comprehensive analysis of the objective (...
Published in June 2023
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A scoping study on coastal vulnerability to relative sealevel rise in the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea's low-lying soft coastline is highly vulnerable to coastal erosion and relative sea-level rise (rSLR). Large capital cities and core economic activities are concentrated along the coastline, and potentially exposed to unforeseen risk. Currently, there is limited research on...
Published in June 2023
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Vulnerability of Ghana’s Coast to Relative Sea-level Rise: A Scoping Review
Coastal areas are regions of essential value that are home to a myriad of services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their topography and evolution. Consequently, many coastal regions, of which Ghana’s coast is no...
Published in June 2023
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Rendemic uncertainties in developing countries: Issues arising from an increased interdependence between banks and the state
An increased recourse to financing from the domestic banking sector has proved to be an important source of resilience for many developing countries in their efforts to face expenditures generated by the Covid-19 crisis. The second issue of MacroDev Semestrial Panorama offers an analysis of the...
Published in February 2022
AFD has placed the implementation of the Paris Agreement at the heart of its mandate. A commitment that accompanies our actions in our different countries of intervention.
Particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, we are targeting the strengthening of State action, adaptation to the effects of...
Published on 05 Jan 2021
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Inequality Diagnostics for Ghana
This report on inequality is the second in the series of inequality diagnostics conducted jointly by AFD and ACEIR, under the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities. The report presents a broad overview of various dimensions of inequality over the recent past, using a wide range of data...
Published in November 2020
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Analysis of Multidimensional Inequalities in West Africa and a Strategy for Inequality Reduction
With the Multidimensional Inequality Framework and the capabilities approach as its theoretical underpinning, this research shows that strong similarities in the expressions of inequalities exist in different domains of life in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Inequalities depending...
Published in November 2020
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A Strategy for Reducing Inequalities in West Africa
Reducing economic and social inequalities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Senegal requires a set of policies clearly focused on the most remote areas of these countries and the particular challenges facing women, young people, and minority groups. New research on inequalities across six...
Published in November 2020
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Understanding the relationship between Consumption Inequality, Inequality of Opportunity and Education Outcomes in Ghana
There have been calls for a shift in policy focus towards economic inequality given that it can potentially generate social instability and be harmful to economic growth in the long run. The current study examines the contribution of inequality of opportunity in consumption inequality, schooling...
Published in October 2020
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Exploring the dynamics of micro- level consumption inequality in Ghana
Despite the country’s recent impressive growth record, inequality remains a pressing concern in Ghana as the benefits of higher incomes are not being evenly distributed. Existing micro-level studies on inequality have comprised sub-group decomposition and decomposition of income by factor...
Published in September 2020
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Open Data for Resilient Agriculture - Hackathon Accra 2019
AFD supports open data in order to share knowledge enriched by the multitude of contributors and to create digital commons that benefit everyone. The Internet and browsers constitute the most advanced library, available to all without restriction but connectivity.
This hackathon...
Published on 12 Feb 2020
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Microfinance at the service of the population in Ghana
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Ghana: What Economic Challenges?
Ghana stands apart from other African economies thanks to its consolidated democratic achievements as well as the pace of its economic growth since the early 2000s. The start of oil production in the second decade of the 21st century has significantly transformed the nation’s economic landscape...
Published on 26 Jun 2019
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AFD and Ghana
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Evaluation Summary - Procredit – Upscaling to mesofinance
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Evaluation Summary - Mesofinance Advans project
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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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