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Does family size hinder family living standards? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Madagascar
In this paper we try to identify the causal impact of fertility on household welfare in Madagascar using gender of the two first-born children as a source of exogenous variation. The issue of the link between fertility and economic well-being has been widely treated in the literature but we
Published in December 2018
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Southern Africa: Biodiversity
Southern Africa has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity. Unfortunately, the capacity of nature to maintain this biological wealth is rapidly diminishing due to habitat loss and degradation resulting from unsustainable development
Published in September 2018
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Southern Africa: Social inclusion
levels of inequality in many countries in the region.
Reducing maternal and infant mortality, countering the spread of HIV, improving farmers’ productivity, increasing access to high quality education are a few examples of AFD’s work to improve social inclusion. These initiatives are in line with AFD’s mission to improve access to basic social services and economic opportunities, ultimately reducing poverty and inequality.
Published in September 2018
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Southern Africa: Research and development
Research is a fundamental first step toward designing successful development projects, as it gives important insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental context in which projects will be implemented. Research helps fine-tune development projects to the realities on the ground, as
Published in September 2018
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Southern Africa: Energy transition
Southern Africa has access to a wealth of primary renewable energy sources, with enough geothermal, hydro, wind and solar resources to provide gigawatts of power. However, the adoption of low-carbon technologies is uneven and hampered by technical, financial and regulatory barriers that slow down
Published in September 2018
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Waste, how much does it cost?
The French Development Agency (AFD), along with Le Mans University, the Gevalor Association, Urbananalyse, and ALBWaste, conducted the ORVA2D (Organisation for Waste Recycling in Developing Cities) research program, aimed at developing a better understanding of the economic pattern of waste
Published in August 2018
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Kenya - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD group has been operating in Kenya since 1995 via its subsidiary PROPARCO. AFD subsequently opened an agency in Nairobi in 1997, with a regional competence for the five countries which make up the East African Community of States (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda) and Somalia since
Published in April 2018
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An oasis in the desert
Marsabit forest, a natural space surrounded by desert, covers an area of over 16,000 hectares. This region in the North of Kenya hosts a core resource for neighboring communities and significant biodiversity. Rare species like elephants or Grévy zebras can be found there. Kenyans have growing
Published in March 2018
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Kenya: a bright couloured school start
In Kisumu, the third most populated city in Kenya, pupils and teachers in the Angira school could not wait a second more: walls were crumbling, classrooms were on the verge of collapsing. The school was built in 1947 and had an urgent need for refurbishment. The most populated classrooms sometimes
Published in February 2018
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