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What Microfinance for Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Between 2005 and 2007 the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) conducted several ex post evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in both urban and rural areas. A specific foc...
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Mexico
Mexico occupies a unique geographic position on the continent, located in North America. As the second-largest Latin American economy after Brazil, the country is committed to multilateralism and is p...
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Analysis of the Determinants of the Demand for Financial Services in Rural Morocco
This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, whic...
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Cotton and Poverty in West Africa: a Comparative Analysis of Household Living Conditions in Mali and Burkina F...
The present study is made up of three sections. The first lays out the terms of the debate on the “Sikasso paradox” as a preamble. The second offers a statistical diagnosis of the standards of living...
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Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Microcredit has rapidly expanded in recent years, providing access to financial services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However, whether it helps the poor has bee...
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Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in a...
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Practical Case of Resident Technical Assistance. Lessons Learned from Support to the Education Sector in Mauri...
Since the Paris Declaration, the topic of “capacity development” has gained considerable momentum in the reflection on Official Development Assistance (ODA). The international community had previously...
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Decentralisation in Turkey
Since 2004, the government of Turkey has undertaken a number of “decentralisation” reforms. A number of laws have been passed that give increased autonomy and resources to regional and local authoriti...
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Urban Development in Vietnam: the Rise of Local Authorities Resources, limits, and evolution of local governan...
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 th...
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Euro-Med Growth and Trade Integration: can we talk of a cost of the non-Mediterranean?
This paper revisits the debate on EuroMediterranean integration to reassess its observed and expected impact on the economic growth of the South and East Mediterranean countries (SEMCs).
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Jordan: the stakes of growth in a troubled regional context
Since 2008, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been affected by different kinds of shocks. The international financial crisis and then the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis ha...
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Export diversification in the franc zone: its extent, sophistication and dynamics
It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The...
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The challenges of India‘s economic policy
Over the 1990s and 2000s, India experienced a remarkable acceleration in its rate of economic growth comparable in the mid-2000s to that of its neighbour China. This economic “take-off”, which was par...
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AFD and Civil Society Organizations
The partnership between AFD and civil society has been greatly enhanced in recent years, making civil society organizations (CSOs) essential partners for AFD. In terms of financing, AFD’s budget to su...
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Creating Access to Agricultural Finance - Based on a horizontal study of Cambodia, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Th...
Inadequate financing of the agricultural sector remains a major constraint in developing countries. Despite the existence of genuine financial needs of large magnitude, financial institutions face dif...
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The Governance of Climate Change in Developing Countries - A Report on International and Domestic Climate Chan...
Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have f...
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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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