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Southern Africa: Research and development
Research is a fundamental first step toward designing successful development projects, as it gives important insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental context in which projects wil...
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Tourism in Africa : Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
This report is the first to examine tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures enabling the sector s economic and development power....
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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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Public Private Partnerships in Water and Electricity in Africa
The paper analyzes the costs and benefits of private participation in the electricity and water industries in SubSaharan Africa. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the participation of private unregulat...
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Opportunities to address inequality in transition
South Africa has high levels of persistent, structural inequality. Social ownership has remerged in recent years as an opportunity to address inequality, particularly in the context of the just transi...
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Debt sustainability in Africa: state of play and future challenges
Almost fifteen years after the last debt relief initiatives were implemented by the international community, some African countries have either recently defaulted on their public debt, subscribed to t...
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AFD Group Offer in North Africa
Both a protean, multicultural region, but also a space of transitions and mobility, North Africa faces major challenges: accelerated urbanization (two-thirds of the population in North Africa lives in...
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Can Arabo-Islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa be ignored?
Arab-Islamic education in general, and Koranic schools in particular, are still largely excluded from programs advocating for education for all in Africa. Consequently, recognizing its existence, its...
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The Future of Work in Africa
The Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital te...
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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to...
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The Commons, vectors for development in East Africa
East Africa, like the rest of the continent, is currently facing increasingly complex social and environmental dilemmas. Faced with these challenges, the commons is an interesting approach, as it expe...
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Is Africa really against democracy? L’Éco du monde #9
Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya… While social movements advocating social, economic, and political demands emerged in several African countries in 2025, Thomas Melonio hosts Ousmane Ndiaye, journalist...
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Empowering Women - Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
This book looks at the effect of legal and economic rights on women's economic opportunities. It focuses on entrepreneurship because women in Africa are active entrepreneurs, and the links between pro...
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Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity : A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments
This study covers land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely contr...
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30 years of the AFD Group in South Africa
2024 marks 30 years of cooperation between AFD and South Africa. From the transition to democracy to the Just Energy Transition, join us on a retrospective journey as we celebrate key milestones in ou...
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Virtual universities in Africa: The challenges that need to be overcome
An increasing number of African nations now offer virtual universities. This is an appropriate (though partial) response to the challenge of the massification of higher education. However, the rollout...
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West Africa - 10 key projects in the energy sector
In West Africa, 46% of the population lacks access to electricity. Access to energy remains a major challenge in the region, which is experiencing significant population growth, urbanization, and indu...
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Green Energy in South Africa
South Africa is an energy-intensive country and a major emitter of greenhouse gases because of the importance of the industrial sector in its gross domestic product (GDP), the use of coal for energy g...
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Building Fiscal Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Local Inequality
Are people’s attitudes towards taxation affected by local levels of inequality in the provision of public goods such as electricity, healthcare, and education? New research on sub-Saharan Africa revea...
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The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptab...
Over the past two decades, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown their economies, lifted millions out of poverty, recovered from conflict, and greatly expanded access to education with a boo...
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