Alain Goulard
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Africa’s mining potential: Current landscape, opportunities, and challenges
Mining activity sparks both fantasies and, at times, criticism, particularly among funders and traditional international cooperation actors. By its very nature, any extractive activity is unsustainable, as it involves selling a product—whether processed or not—whose...
Published in March 2025
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Reducing Pollution from Cooking Smoke: key lessons from the REDGAS randomized study in Burkina Faso
Universal access to clean and efficient cooking remains an environmental and health challenge: despite progress in electrification, wood-based cooking is still widely used in many countries. The REDGAS impact evaluation, conducted in Burkina Faso through a Randomized Controlled...
Published in September 2024
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The minerals essential to the energy and digital transitions: An opportunity for Africa?
With the acceleration of the energy and digital transitions, global demand for critical minerals has grown exponentially in recent years. Africa,
with its extensive and still relatively unexploited reserves, hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to support its industrialization...
Published in January 2024
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Metis: a unique initiative to link arts and development
… Saputra et Audrey Ardissa Inde : Manveer Singh aka Plasticvalla Mexique : Priscila Martínez Pérou : Jessica Moulinet et Philippe Manguin; Christian Bendayán et Rember Yahuarcani Haiti : Gaëlle Bien-Aimé Arc caribéen : Jessica Oublié Images : … (vidéo) Haïti : Reginald Louissaint Junior / Kolektif 2D Indonésie : Matahati productions Pérou : Antonio de Loayza et Philippe Manguin Nigeria : Girls Voices Initiatives Inde : Utsha foundation Maurice : Ajay Boodhoo Maroc : Laïd Liazid …
Published in December 2021
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Ex-post evaluation of the impacts of the tramway systems of Casablanca and Rabat-Salé – 2020
Commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD, French Development Agency), Casa Transports, and the Société du Tramway de Rabat Salé (STRS, Rabat-Salé Tramway Company), the present evaluation is, in many respects, the first of its kind. The first two...
Published on 16 Nov 2021
Agroecology is a science, a trend of thought, and a set of cultural practices implying the application of the principles of ecology to agriculture to obtain sustainable production in optimized quantities....
Published on 01 Jun 2021
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Poverty and inequalities in the peanut basin of Senegal: implications and recommendations
In 2016, nearly 90% of households in the Senegalese peanut basin lived below the national poverty line. However, when looking at the situation through the prism of inequalities, the importance of the latter is striking, as reflected by a Gini coefficient of 0.44. While inequalities between...
Published on 30 Dec 2020
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What policies should be implemented to promote agro-ecological intensification and reduce inequalities in the Peanut Basin of Senegal?
In the north of the peanut basin, the arid climate limits the efficiency of fertilization too much for it to be relevant to intensify grain production. It is more legitimate to support the groundnut sector, or even to develop other legumes with a shorter cycle (cowpeas). In the rest of the basin...
Published in December 2020
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The Landscape of Adaptation Aid in SIDS
Small island developing states (SIDS) are recognised as “particularly” vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and accordingly receive relatively high levels of adaptation assistance as a group. We here analyse bilateral and multilateral adaptation aid committed to SIDS between 2009 and...
Published on 20 Oct 2020
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Impacts of weather and climate information services on African agriculture
Weather and seasonal forecasts give African farmers the information they need to prepare for climate shocks and change their practices.These changes are generally economically beneficial. Yet consideration of the business model, forecast dissemination institutions and target users is key to...
Published on 04 Jul 2019
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DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health
Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the liberal policies then promoted, alongside the emergence of the AIDS pandemic, gave rise to new public...
Published in February 2019
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Evaluation Summary - Rural infrastructure development and tourism project in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
In the Lao Cai Province of Vietnam, the rural infrastructure development and tourism project was subject to an evaluation in December 2018.
Northern Vietnam province Lao Cai is among the poorest areas in the country. Its...
Published in December 2018
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Family Farming Around the World: Definitions, contributions and public policies
Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions. They form the social basis of most Southern countries and contribute to supplying their local,...
Published on 31 Aug 2017
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World Development Report - WDR 2015 - Progress and Limits
The innovative World Bank Report Mind, Society, and Behavior (WDR 2015) offers great prospects, focusing on the way in which human beings act according to the meaning they give to situations in which they find themselves. It does consider this way of acting as obeying forms of rationality that...
Published in April 2015
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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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Theorising National Cultures
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Published in January 2014
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Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book contributes to knowledge on the functioning of urban labor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa by investigating a variety of questions. Which individuals lack access to employment or are employed beneath their capacities? Does education improve working conditions? What opportunities does the...
Published on 30 Jan 2018
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Urban Development in Vietnam: the Rise of Local Authorities Resources, limits, and evolution of local governance
Local authorities are playing an increasingly influential role in the exponential economic growth and development of Vietnam and its cities. They have now become key actors playing pivotal roles in the delivery of most public urban services (water, sanitation, waste management, public transport,...
Published in October 2010
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Economic Partnership Agreements and Regional Trade Flow Dynamics: The ECOWAS Case
The Cotonou Agreement, signed in June 2000, has as its central objective "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty consistent with the objectives of sustainable development and the gradual integration of the ACP countries into the world economy" (article 1). Yet, several voices have spoken up...
Published in June 2007
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Successful Companies in the Developing World
In the developing countries, one can find extremely high-performing companies. What is their secret? Do they faithfully replicate best practices that have proved their worth in the most advanced economies? Or do they adopt creative approaches to management by leveraging the cultural resources...
Published in January 2007