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Programme for Energy Efficiency in Building (Peeb) Cool
Peeb Cool aims at enhancing energy efficiency in the building sector in 11 countries - Albania, Argentina, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Sri Lanka, and Tu...
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Sport for development and peace
Since the turn of the century, sport has gained legitimacy in the field of international development. As institutions have gradually recognized its role and the number of grass-roots initiatives has i...
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Namma Metro : the lifeline of Bengaluru
AFD is financing the Bengaluru metro project for a total amount of €310 million. A lifeline which is welcomed and enjoyed by Bangaloreans, who face the challenge of traffic jams on a daily basis. Ben...
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Governance - 2021 Activity Report
In 2016, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) entrusted AFD with the funding of projects in matters of governance. This mandate has enabled AFD to move into a new area of expertise, one...
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AFD and Urban Mobility
The development of sustainable and inclusive urban mobility systems is one of the requirements for cities to remain “livable”: everyone must be able to get around their cities easily and safely, have...
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Public bank lending in Africa in times of crisis
This paper examines public bank lending in Africa in times of crisis. To do so, we exploit an original data set covering all banks operating in eight West African countries. The final sample considers...
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How does fertility affect female employment? Evidence from Albania
This article inspects the relationship between fertility and employment, providing an explanatory mixed-methods analysis to gauge their nexus for rural and urban Albania over the 2000s. Instrumenting...
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Peru
Peru has one of the best performing economies in South America. However, the country faces record urban growth and high vulnerability to climate change. Since 2014, AFD has been assisting it in achiev...
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Development finance fragmentation and diversification: the case of China, India and Türkiye
From 2010 to 2019, the international community committed USD 1,700 billion in loans for developing countries. While multila-teral development banks continued to provide the bulk of financings (60% of...
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Replay: MacroDev Online Webinar on the Commodity Prices Boom
Along this webinar at the occasion of the release of the MacroDev-Semestrial Panorama 2022 #2, AFD economists provided analysis in a thematic note devoted to commodities. Several country cases illustr...
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2022 Activity and Corporate Social Responsibility Report
AFD Group releases its Activity and Social Responsibility Report (RARES), which reports on its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2022 edition of the Activ...
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The Proof is in the Pudding. Revealing the SDGs with Artificial Intelligence
The use of frontier technologies in the field of sustainability is likely to accompany its visibility, and the quality of information available to decision makers. This paper explores the possibility...
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Greening China’s investments in Africa: issues and challenges
The 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which was held in Dakar in November 2021, strengthened the pillars of a “new era” of China-Africa cooperation in various fields, including energy, wh...
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2021 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
In 2020, in order to ensure the consistency of AFD Group's 100% Paris Agreement commitments and 100% Social Link commitments with its presence on the markets, AFD created a bond framework aligned with...
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Designing the Collective Intelligence Commons
The digital commons – including thousands of standards and tools for open hardware, data, software and content – play a vital role in the development of many of the world’s most impactful collective i...
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Developing green mobility in Phuket (short version)
In Phuket, the Sustainable Urban TranspoRT and Heritage (SUTRHE) study, funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), aims to analyse inclusive and environmentally friendly alternatives for b...
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Sports and Development - 2019-2020 Activity Report
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sports as a unifying and inclusive vehicle: it contributes directly to the achievement of 12 Sustainable Development Goals and indirectly to all...
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AFD Group 2020 Results: All you need to know in 12 pages
With the boost in France’s development policy and the mobilization of French stakeholders and other public development banks, AFD Group has been able to mount a rapid response to the crisis caused by...
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Minka, France’s development tool to take action before/during/after a crisis
Crises must be tackled urgently to mitigate their effects and over time to deal with them in depth. The Covid-19 pandemic is an example. It is a reminder of the urgent need to take full account of lon...
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Thailand
Thailand is an emerging country, with the second-largest economy of Southeast Asia. But it faces a triple challenge: an aging population, maintaining competitiveness and preserving the environment. AF...
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