Alain Goulard
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Responsible Data Re-use in Developing Countries: Social Licence through Public Engagement
The datafication era has transformed the technological landscape, digitizing multiple areas of human life and offering opportunities for societal progress through the re-use of digital data. Developing countries stand to benefit from datafication but are faced with challenges like insufficient...
Published in March 2024
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AFD and gender equality in South Asia
Agence Française de Développement is committed to gender mainstreaming in all operations, recognizing that sustainable development cannot be achieved without gender equality. Financing projects that promote women empowerment, leadership and the effective exercise of women'srights is at the very...
Published in March 2024
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Climate: Taking action for a more sustainable financial system
Actors in the financial system play an essential role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in combating climate disruption. AFD Group works alongside financial institutions and regulators in the field to build long-term sustainable economic, social, and environmental...
Published in March 2024
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Recycling carbon taxes for reindustrialisation: addressing structural rigidity and financialisation in natural resource exporting countries
Inclusion of developing and emerging countries in the low carbon transition agenda is imperative to meet climate goals, and policies should be tailored to their unique characteristics. Despite their significance, the structural specifics of these countries are frequently overlooked in low-carbon...
Published in March 2024
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AFD and Indonesia
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Governance: how can institutions serve citizens?
Governance refers to the operational norms and regulations of any entity, whether it’s an organization, company, region, or an entire country.
As the UN’s 16th Sustainable Development Goal, governance has a universal scope that is relevant to us all. But what does governance mean exactly...
Published in February 2024
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Philippines – Preserving economic stability, financing development and anticipating climate issues
Referred to as the “sick man of Asia” during the last third of the 20th century, the Philippines has recorded dynamic economic growth since the mid-2000s and is beginning to catch up with the more advanced economies of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). This catching-up has come...
Published in February 2024
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Development Finance Institutions: New directions for the future
In an evolving development landscape, the urgency for Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to innovate, adapt and deliver is intensifying. In this context, four discussions – focusing on DFIs’ additionality and ability to mobilise to private finance, their risk policies, and their development...
Published in February 2024
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Procurement guidelines for AFD-financed contracts in foreign countries
The Guidelines are the reference document for the procurement of AFD-financed contracts. Their objective is to highlight the principles, requirements, and rules of procedures AFD requires in the framework of contracts procured under its financing in foreign countries. This document applies in...
Published in February 2024
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Seeing the Light in rural Uganda
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Virtual universities in Africa: The challenges that need to be overcome
An increasing number of African nations now offer virtual universities. This is an appropriate (though partial) response to the challenge of the massification of higher education. However, the rollout of virtual universities raises technical, institutional,and cultural issues, as well as...
Published in February 2024
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Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa
Reducing the labor market gender gap is crucial for ensuring women’s economic empowerment. Despite recording one of the highest participation rate in the workforce, women in Sub-Saharan Africa still face many institutional, economic and cultural barriers that translate into lower access to paid...
Published in January 2024
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L'économie africaine 2024 : English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
We are currently facing a systemic crisis, where geopolitical tensions and structural failures are inextricably linked, as are diplomacy and development. The growth trajectories that many countries have been following for almost two centuries are now running into problems: the environment being...
Published in January 2024
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Balancing Conservation and Community Welfare: Enhancing the Management of Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia
Marine protected areas have played an important role in conserving and restoring marine biodiversity that is threatened due to the climate change. Indonesia has expanded its marine protected areas, covering 411 locations with more than 28 million hectares (about 9% of its territorial waters)....
Published in January 2024
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MacroDev N°53 - SEMESTRIAL PANORAMA 2024 #1
Three decades ago, it was believed that the end of the (first) Cold War would herald the “end of history” and the advent of economic globalization dominated by multinational companies, relegating governments to the sidelines. Today, we appear to be back in a political era, with governments...
Published in January 2024
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Latin America: at the vanguard of sustainable development
In 2020, Colombia recorded the highest levels of inequality and poverty in the last decade. According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE, 2020), the monetary poverty rate reached 42.5% and the GINI inequality index stood at 0.544. The increase in these indicators can...
Published in January 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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Vietnam at a crossroads: avoiding the middle-income trap while addressing climate challenges
Following three decades of strong growth (7% on average) which enabled the country to eradicate extreme poverty and reach middle-income status, Vietnam continues to offer highly attractive prospects. Socio-political stability, a cautious policy mix, continually high economic growth, and the size...
Published in January 2024
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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