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A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"
The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first version of the database, published in 2001, covered 51 countries. The next survey will take place in 2009. This document sets out the starting hypotheses, the method of compilation and the results of an initial statistical exploration of the database.
Published in September 2007
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Culture and development : a review of literature
Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a vocabulary for distinguishing one group of people from another in terms of their differing systems of meaning, patterns of behaviour, or levels of technology. They have also offered
Published in November 2007
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Potential Financial Frameworks for a Sustainable UNEO
A recent study undertaken by COWI, a Danish consultancy, and co-financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agence Française de Développement examines the potential financial frameworks for a future United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO), according to the possible future
Published in June 2007
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A Comparative Study of Evaluation Policies and Practices in Development agencies
This study was commissioned to map and compare evaluation practices across development agencies, primarily with a view to stimulate an internal debate within AFD on its evaluation systems during a time of reform. However, the report can stimulate a wider debate within the development evaluation
Published in December 2007
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Youth and Labour Markets in Africa : A critical review of literature
This survey of literature focuses mainly on economic research done on Sub-Saharan Africa, although some references are reviewed for North Africa. It stresses that an assessment of youth employment problems in African countries requires a (still missing) clear diagnosis based on hard data and
Published in December 2007
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Fostering Impact Evaluation at the Agence Française de Développement: a process of building in-house ownership and capacities
In 2006, the Evaluation Unit of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) was incorporated into the Research Department in order to integrate a research strand into the work of evaluation. This new approach has led AFD to undertake rigorous impact evaluations in partnership with academic teams
Published in December 2007
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Governance of Renewable Natural Resources: Concepts, Methods and Tools
L’approche des questions relatives à l’environnement et à la gestion des ressources naturelles a évolué rapidement au cours des quinze dernières années. Outre de nouvelles mesures d’incitation, c’est l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs et de nouvelles formes de gouvernance qui a profondément marqué la
Published in September 2007
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Successful Companies in the Developing World
offered by their environment?
Four companies located in Argentina, Cameroon, Morocco and Mexico reveal the alchemy of their success. These organisations have relied on a modern reinterpretation of traditional forms of co-operation present in their surrounding society but normally absent from the sphere
Published in January 2007
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Turkey: Overview and Perspectives
The report is the outcome of four months of collaboration between AFD and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management to examine existing CSR stakeholder initiatives and practices in Turkey. Between 2005 and 2006, a literature review, field visits and face-to-face interviews with key public and
Published in December 2007
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Accompanying Measures Are Needed
The Cotonou agreements announce the end of preferential agreements by envisaging a renewed partnership, based on reciprocity, between the European Union and six regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). These economic partnership agreements (EPAs) are better able to meet the new challenges of globalisation and the legal requirements of the World Trade Organisation. (...)
Published in January 2007
