Alain Goulard
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors
In a rapidly urbanizing world, where more than two in three people are expected to live in cities by 2050, internal migration is often feared as a source of urban underdevelopment. Over the coming decades, urbanization will be especially fast in Asia and Africa, where the urban share of the...
Published in January 2024
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Developing a Youth Labour Market Index for South Africa at the sub-national level
Assessing the labour market situation for young people is a critical area of research that has attracted the attention of scholars and policymakers globally. However, understanding the complexity of the labour market for youth, particularly in developing countries, requires a comprehensive,...
Published in September 2023
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Vulnerability and integration in Jordan: Syrian refugees in their local environment
The Compact reached between Jordan and its main donor countries in February 2016 by virtue of which Jordan committed itself to regularize the professional status of Syrian
refugees in exchange for financial and economic compensations, confirmed the necessity of transitioning between...
Published in August 2023
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The local economic development effects of income transfers in South Africa. The Social Relief of Distress grant
Following the onset of COVID-19 in April 2020, this qualitative study considered the effects of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant on local economies in five urban and peri-urban locations in South Africa, through the perspectives of informal traders. In a context of acute inequality, the...
Published in April 2023
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Measuring Stimulus Effects Around Stock Road in Philippi in the Western Cape
The study aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on the impact of social protection and employment stimulus measures on the formal and informal economies, by exploring shifts in purchasing behaviour between 2019 and 2022 among informal and small traders in a 3.5 km radius around Stock Road...
Published in March 2023
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The Impact of COVID-19 on households and firms in the MENA region: the case of Sudan
This paper aims to discuss the status of households and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan as a case study of the MENA countries. It is based on new primary data obtained from ERF COVID MENA Monitor Household Survey (2021) and the World Bank and Sudan Central Bureau of Statistic High...
Published in May 2022
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The middle class in Argentina: dynamics, characteristics and implications for public policies
Argentina is generally considered as the typical middle-class country in Latin America. Yet, while the successive crises that have hit the Argentinean economy over the four last decades have obviously affected both the size and stability of its middle class, academic studies are lacking on the...
Published in May 2022
This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platform. It also asks how female drivers balance between paid labour and care responsibilities. The...
Published in March 2022
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
This article inspects how the expansion of the platform economy affects gender inequalities, in some new forms as well in reinforcing pre-existing ones. It focuses on two platform occupations in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area: ride-hailing and delivery services. First, it explores the ways...
Published in March 2022
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Precarisation or Protection? The Impact of Digital Platform Labour on Argentinean Domestic Workers in Times of Pandemic
The article analyses how the platform economy affects the domestic service sector, focusing particularly on the issue of workers’ formalisation. It looks at Zolvers, the only digital platform for domestic workers in Argentina, and uses a mixed method approach to inspect workers’ relationship...
Published in March 2022
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Regulating platform delivery work in Argentina. Tensions between regulations and the priorities of workers
The quarantine imposed in March 2020 shed light on the essential labour performed by digital delivery platforms’ workers and their precarious labour conditions. In order to protect them, seven draft bills were proposed to Congress in Argentina, oscillating between a salaried/independent classifi...
Published on 01 Mar 2022
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Labour transitions that lead to platform work: Towards increased formality? Evidence from Argentina
The recent growth of the platform economy as a tool for labour exchanges has brought about concerns on the overall quality of jobs created. As labour platforms leave a digital trace, this paper assesses whether platforms can help to increase registered labour in contexts of extended informality...
Published in February 2022
The Shabake program mobilizes 9.4 million euros to strengthen the capacities of 13 local CSOs (civil society organizations) in the implementation of their field activities. Co-financed by the Agence Française de Développement and the Danish cooperation DANIDA, the Shabake program is implemented...
Published on 02 Aug 2021
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Education, Training, Employment - 2020 Activity Report
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Youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger: Gender dynamics and livelihoods
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to identify factors that challenge and enable young adults’ inclusion in the world of work in Niger, through a gender-streamlined analysis of different poverty trajectories of livelihoods and how these are affected by training, education and migration. We...
Published in May 2021
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Mixed methods approach for research on youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger
This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach developed by LASDEL’s social anthropological qualitative methodology and the CPAN’s critical realist...
Published in May 2021
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Teacher Wages, the Recruitment of Talent, and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effects of a large unconditional increase in the salary of public sector teachers in Peru. Population-based rules that determine the level of teacher compensation generate locally exogenous discrete changes in wage posting across rural locations. School vacancies offering...
Published in April 2021
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining in Cambodia
This working paper focuses on the livelihood impacts of river sand mining in Cambodia. We draw on two examples: (a) that of sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Penh; and (b) those of urban farmers, whose livelihoods are impacted by the sand infill of urban...
Published on 12 Mar 2021
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The Jobs & Cities Approach
In the countries where AFD operates, cities are key sources of economic and job opportunities, but also places of social and territorial inequalities. It is therefore crucial to implement strategies to support employment and foster economic development for the benefit of all the people who live...
Published in December 2020