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Nigeria: The Restrained Ambitions of Africa‘s Largest Economy
With 180 million inhabitants, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Its economy is also the strongest. Just twice as large as France in size, its people are also very diverse: more than 250...
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Vulnerabilities to climate change in the French overseas territories and small island states
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures the vulnerability of small island territories to the impacts of climate change, whether periodic (cyclones, droughts) or progressive...
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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...
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Are the Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa so Dependent on Food Imports?
Prevalent in discussions of food provision issues in Western and Central Africa is the idea that urban centres in Western and Central Africa are dependent on food imports, and that urbanization is acc...
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Sahelian youth: dynamics of exclusion, means of integration
For twenty years now, the Sahel region has been marked by rising insecurity, political crises, and poorly controlled flows of people, arms and illegal goods, with a major risk of States becoming desta...
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Safety Nets in Africa : Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable
The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world‘s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be see...
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Support to local socio-economic revitalisation in cities undergoing crisis
AFD is regularly called upon to support urban development projects in areas recovering from crises, be they natural or political. Above and beyond the simple reconstruction of buildings, such requests...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector
The AFD, with support from the international network of experts, GEFOP, proposes to conduct an in-depth study on the conditions and forms of investment in training in the informal sector. (...)
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Cameroon Field Survey
Cameroon was originally chosen as one of the five sample countries for the field survey on vocational training in the informal sector because it stands out among the subSaharan African countries. (......
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Angola Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Accompanying Measures Are Needed
The Cotonou agreements announce the end of preferential agreements by envisaging a renewed partnership, based on reciprocity, between the European Union and six regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Pa...
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A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"
The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first ve...
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AFD-funded Resident Technical Assistance
Since the CICID (Inter-ministerial Committee for International Co-operation and Development) meeting in 2005, sectoral capacity-building now falls under AFD’s responsibility/remit. At the same time, t...
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Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience
There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and...
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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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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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