Alain Goulard
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State and Local Government Climate Initiatives
This study conducted by AFD, in partnership with I4CE, proposes an analysis of the commitment by the States of 51 developing and emerging countries to fostering climate policies implemented by their local governments in 2017. Drawing on a database created for the purpose of the study, the analysis...
Published in December 2017
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The IDFC Green Finance Mapping Report for 2015-2016
The IDFC, the International Development Finance Club, formed in 2011 brings together 23 leading international, national and sub regional development banks from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and South America. IDFC members share a similar vision of promoting of low-carbon and climate...
Published in December 2017
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Climate & Development - 2017-2022 Strategy
AFD was one of the first international donors to integrate the fight against climate change into its practices. This approach, initiated more than a decade ago, is based both on the principle that the fight against climate change is inextricably linked to the trajectory and development policies...
Published in December 2017
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An Input-Output Analysis: What Would a Low-Carbon Economy for Brazil Mean?
Mixing economic growth with low-carbon objectives entails multidimensional challenges among which a shift in employment and a rapid transformation of infrastructure are involved. The aim of this paper is to provide a data-driven analysis to strengthen our understanding of what a low-carbon...
Published in December 2017
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Improving European coordination in fragile states - Main report
This document is the main report of a study carried out by the Centre for EU Studies (CEUS), Ghent University, and commissioned by the Practitioners’ Network for European development cooperation in 2017. This study explores the challenges and opportunities to coordination in situations of crisis...
Published in December 2017
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Evaluation Summary - Sere Wind Farm Project – Eskom
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Flood risk and cities in developing countries
The risk of flooding is a natural hazard affecting the most people worldwide. However, it is more of a risk in terms of material damage than a lethal risk for the affected population. Integrated flood risk management (IFRM) constitutes a global response to flood risk that is structurally...
Published in December 2017
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South Africa: from cow manure to green energy
In South Africa, a brand-new action has come into being: cow manure is being used. Sean Thomas, a South African entrepreneur, has set up a plant that produces biogas energy. In brief, rather than leaving methane and CO2 coming from the cattle pollute, this plant creates energy with it. In other...
Published in November 2017
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Supporting Youth Insertion into the African Labor Market
In Africa, as in the rest of the world, youth employment is a major concern—maybe even more so in Africa than elsewhere. Africa is the region that has the highest proportion of youth in the world when compared to its total population. Access to jobs, especially for youth, is a top priority for...
Published in November 2017
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Debt and damages: what are the chances of staying under the 2°C warming threshold?
In a stock-flow consistent macrodynamic model featuring two crucial endogenous destabilizing channels, namely debt accumulation and climate change, we perform a sensitivity analysis on four fundamental parameters of the climate and economic systems: the climate sensitivity, the inertia of the...
Published in November 2017
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Linkages between Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores linkages between women’s education and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, using DHS data from about 30 countries. There are three substantive sets of analyses. First, we shed light on several pathways via which fertility is linked to education. We examine how fertility varies...
Published in November 2017
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Improving European coordination in fragile states -Executive summary
This document is the executive summary of a study carried out by the Centre for EU Studies (CEUS), Ghent University, and commissioned by the Practitioners’ Network for European development cooperation in 2017. This study explores the challenges and opportunities to coordination in situations of...
Published in November 2017
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Burkina Faso, new hub of renewable energies
Located in the South-West of Ouagadougou, Zagtouli, the biggest solar plant in West Africa – and the first in Burkina Faso - has been build. In a country where 19 million inhabitants have no access to electricity, having a reliable, cheap and efficient energy supply is crucial....
Published in November 2017
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Climate: the Financial Challenge
Climate change: a challenge for the financial sector
Long seen by the financial sector as a marginal issue driven by a few pioneers, in recent years, climate change has become a central issue for the entire finance industry. This book, based on the belief that the financial sector has all...
Published in November 2017
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Testing Goodwin with a Stochastic Differential Approach – The United States (1948-2017)
This paper follows Harvie (2000)’s research program in testing both Goodwin (1967)’s predator-prey model and the extension proposed by van der Ploeg (1985). The author’s aim is to provide a guideline for the estimation and the backtesting strategy that can be applied to such a class of continuous-...
Published in November 2017