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The local economic development effects of income transfers in South Africa
What have been the impacts of the Covid-19 national stimulus package's social assistance on local economies and informal sector workers in South Africa? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility o...
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Measuring stimulus effects on the South African economy
Does the use of stimulus programs and social grants by beneficiaries have an impact on the South African economy? Conducted by Infusion Knowledge as part of the Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facili...
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Evaluation of local stimulus effects in South Africa: Jobs and grants programmes
What have been the local stimulus effects of the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus Initiative (PES) and the national social grants program? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility o...
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Mapping digital commons in sub-Saharan Africa
Digital technology has gained a major place in development strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. Entrepreneurship as a common is a phenomenon of scale but that is still little known. The study made it pos...
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Gender and commons
Gender, as a system of domination, contributes to structuring governance and resource allocation processes – an issue that is at the heart of the commons. This study focused on the links between the t...
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Understanding the paracommons of Palestinian water
In the Palestinian territories, water, as a circulating resource, is shared among several actors, including at the local level. Mobilizing the concept of "commons", this research program aimed to unde...
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Macroeconomic country assessment − Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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Macroeconomic country assessment − Cambodia
Cambodia is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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PAIRES – AFD-IRD Partnership to conduct impact assessments by mobilizing research from the Global South
PAIRES is a partnership between AFD and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) that funds a series of impact assessments of development interventions supported by AFD...
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Macroeconomic country assessment – Brazil
Brazil is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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Building smart sustainable cities with CITIIS
In July 2018, AFD launched one of its largest national level projects – CITIIS (City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain). 100 cities have been shortlisted by the government of India to bec...
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AFD and governance
By helping governments to more effectively fulfill their sovereign functions and civil society to be involved in collective decision-making, AFD is taking up the challenge of inclusive development, in...
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AFD and Bangladesh
Since 2012, AFD and Bangladesh have been working together to develop low-carbon infrastructure and to promote access to essential services for the people. AFD acts through loans and also mobilizes Eur...
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AGREENFI, an Agricultural and Rural Finance Label
Agricultural and rural development are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also has a leverage effect for reducing social, economic, and climate vulnerabilities, and f...
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Urban waste: between decentralised management and commons
Non-centralised waste management procedures are developing in the Southern countries: community pre-collection, recycling and the micro-local circular economy.
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AFD Group Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct
Corruption, in all its forms, is a major obstacle to development. In developing countries, perhaps even more than in developed countries, it has detrimental effects. It deprives the poorest populat...
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What is Adapt'Action Facility?
Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has launched Adapt’Action to support countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their com...
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A research facility to better understand inequalities
The program is financed with €4 million from the European Commission and coordinated by AFD, which is leading various studies with academic and institutional partners in a number of developing, emergi...
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AFD & Food For Cities
In a constantly urbanizing world, city governments have come to play a crucial role in urban food policies. From among the challenges facing cities, ensuring food security for their residents is vital...
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Does family size hinder family living standards? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Madagascar
In this paper we try to identify the causal impact of fertility on household welfare in Madagascar using gender of the two first-born children as a source of exogenous variation. The issue of the link...
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