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Payments for Ecosystem Services. From Theory to Practice - What Are the Prospects for Developing Countries?
Today, the acronym PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services) has become an omnipresent concept in funding environmental projects, in scientific publications as well as in arenas where environmental and dev...
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Financing Africa‘s Cities : The Imperative of Local Investment
African countries confront vast economic, social, and environmental challenges. Although urban issues bear upon many of these challenges, they have remained a secondary priority for governments and th...
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The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa - Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
As Africa grows and modernizes, it is crucial to understand how to better translate these positive trends into poverty reduction through productive employment, especially for the 7–10 million young pe...
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Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited - Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizi...
Many late developing countries face tremendous challenges: They have to deal simultaneously with their economic and demographic transitions in the context of globalization and under the constraints of...
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Transitions Decreed, Transitions Experienced From Global to Local: Methodological, Cross-cutting and Critical ...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, École française d’Extrême-Orient (ÉFEO) a...
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Nigeria
AFD began its activities in Nigeria 12 years ago and is now one of the country’s important partners. Its varied financing solutions contribute not only to the development of a competitive economy that...
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Decentralisation and the Free Basic Water Policy in South Africa: What Role for the Private Sector?
Within the debate on the private sector‘s role in SubSaharan Africa, the authors were prompted to undertake a more detailed examination of South Africa as a country that is prioritising service access...
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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 povert...
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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 te...
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Community Participation in Biodiversity Protection: An Enhanced Analytical Framework for Practitioners
This paper presents an enhanced analytical framework to project designers and evaluators for reinforcing their analysis of initiatives based on "community participation"-with a special focus on proje...
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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 in...
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The Integration of Food Aid Programmes in Niger‘s Development Policies: the 2004-2005 Food Crisis
The 2004-2005 food crisis was doubled by a politicoinstitutional crisis that bears witness to the lack of coordination among the various players‘ programmes and raises the following question: what mal...
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Sectoral aid in practice
Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, developing countries and donors have increasingly favoured the development of sectoral aid, which represents a substantially different approach from t...
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The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the eco...
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Going Beyond Adverse Selection: Take-up of a Health Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
Standard insurance theory predicts that households that anticipate high insurance costs are those that are willing to purchase health insurance (adverse selection). However, there are also several oth...
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Insuring Health or Insuring Wealth? An experimental evaluation of health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can lead to long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks. If uninsu...
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SKY Impact Evaluation Cambodia, 2010 Village Monographs
The SKY health microinsurance programme, run by the GRET is an innovative attempt to extend health insurance to Cambodians, with special initiatives reaching out to both the rural and urban poor. The...
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Adverse selection based on observable and unobservable factors in health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can have long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks, increase hea...
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development in Africa
This paper underlines a paradox: although "pro-poor" development assistance policies pay little attention to natural capital, the fact is that such resources are of great practical importance for the...
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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 yea...
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