Alain Goulard
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Knowledge Production at AFD - Issues and Orientations
AFD has a dual mandate to finance sustainable development and produce knowledge. The second aspect of this mandate aims to enhance strategies and provide concrete responses to the challenges of poverty and sustainable development. This means learning from experience, anticipating future...
Published in December 2014
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AFD and its Partners - The Cultural Dimension
A development agency operating in a large number of countries and territories is faced with great cultural diversity. There are, of course, universal or almost universal expectations towards it. They do not only concern the purely financial aspects of its operations, such as interest rate levels...
Published in March 2014
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PEFA Methodology and Sub-National Governments: What Lessons for AFD?
The analysis of the application of the PEFA framework methodology to sub-national entities, developed here through the examination of 56 evaluation reports, and based on the practical experience of team-led projects at AFD, shows that it is globally adapted to decentralized governments....
Published in April 2013
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Energy Efficiency Policies in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
Most papers dealing with energy efficiency policies focus on the policies and measures implemented in OECD countries and this may lead one to think that only the “rich” countries are developing efforts in this field. International experience shows that emerging countries and even poor developing...
Published in April 2013
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In Pursuit of Energy Efficiency in India’s Agriculture: Fighting ‘Free Power’ or Working with it?
En Inde, 70 % de l'électricité est produite à base de charbon; le secteur agricole en consomme un quart pour l'extraction d'eau souterraine à des fins d'irrigation. Améliorer l'efficacité énergétique de l'agriculture indienne est donc une priorité pour la planète. Pourtant, la situation est rendue...
Published in August 2012
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High Returns, Low Attention, Slow Implementation: The Policy Paradoxes of India‘s Clean Energy Development
L'Inde déclare mener une transition profonde vers une électricité faible en carbone, en doublant ses efforts dans les domaines des énergies renouvelables et de l'efficacité énergétique. Force est de contacter, toutefois, des paradoxes dans la politique menée, aux niveaux du nombre et du rythme de...
Published in July 2012
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Development Aid Reforms in the Context of New Public Management
The purpose of this article is to analyse reforms to the international development aid policy based on the concepts of New Public Management. Three principles are particularly discussed: the segmentation of development policy implementation, the growing concern for accountability, and the...
Published in June 2012
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Assessing Credit Guarantee Schemes for SME, Finance in Africa - Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania
To assess credit guarantee schemes (CGSs) in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, the authors investigated the entire supply chain running from credit guarantee providers to banks (and other financial institutions) and ultimately to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They explored the...
Published in April 2012
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Fostering low-carbon growth initiatives in Thailand
Cette étude répond à trois objectifs : (i) passer en revue les informations et la littérature scientifique pour construire un cadre d’instruments de politique climatique ; (ii) analyser et exploiter les contributions scientifiques existantes en Thaïlande, et plus particulièrement les contenus des...
Published in February 2012
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Student Loans: Liquidity Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Although primary education is almost universal in South Africa, and secondary schooling has very wide outreach, higher education has become a severe problem in this emerging country. Enrollment stands at about 15%, a low figure for a country at this level of development. The black and colored...
Published in September 2011
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Peasants Against Private Property Rights: A Review of the Literature
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Thailand: The World‘s Leading Exporter of Natural Rubber Owing to its Smallholders
Thailand is currently the world‘s leading exporter of natural rubber, accounting for 33% of the annual volume traded. In addition to its quantitative performance, the case of Thailand is noteworthy in that this output is driven by smallholders, who own 95% of the total area planted with rubber...
Published in January 2011
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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of...
Published in October 2010
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Private Sector Participation in the Indian Power
In September 2005, AFD’s Research Department launched a Research Program on Public Private Partnerships with an approach combining economic analysis (contractual incentives, financing of investment, etc.) with a sociological and political approach to regulatory issues. Various case studies have...
Published in August 2010
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The Global Discourse on “Participation” and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection
This paper inquires into the nature of “participation” as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that “participation” is a type of “global discourse” that is central to current forms of global governance, as well as to debates on, and around,...
Published in May 2010
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Community Participation Beyond Idealisation and Demonisation: Biodiversity Protection in Soufrière, St. Lucia
The Soufrière Maritime Management Association is one of the best-known examples of "participatory environmental planning" in the southern hemisphere. Created in 1994 after more than three years of intensive stakeholder consultation and negotiation, involving resource users, governmental and non...
Published in January 2010
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Institutional Profiles Database III - Presentation of the Institutional Profiles Database 2009 (IPD 2009)
This document presents an overview of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) 2009. The IPD offers researchers a quantitative evaluation of the institutional characteristics of 123 countries covering 99% of global GDP and 96% of the world population. The database is oriented towards the...
Published in January 2010
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Community participation in the Pantanal, Brazil: containment games and learning processes
In this paper, we inquire into how “community participation” (CP) played out in the creation of the Pantanal Regional Park (PRP), a large-scale participatory initiative launched in 1998 in the Brazilian portion of the world’s largest wetland. This paper identifies the strategic significance of CP...
Published in January 2010
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Local taxation: an economy-based guide
The present paper is an extension of the research work undertaken by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the field of local taxation. The study by Dafflon et al. (2008), published in the series "Notes and Documents", addresses various points concerning local fiscal resources, and this...
Published in November 2009