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5 Ways to Deal with Drought in Africa and Beyond
As climate change exacerbates droughts and makes countries’ water supplies even more unpredictable, development projects in Africa are using a growing number of anti-drought techniques such as wastewa...
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AFD and Mauritius: 40 years of collaboration on water
AFD has been working with Mauritius for more than 40 years. One of the main objectives of their partnership has been to develop widespread access to drinking water and sanitation. Here we focus on the...
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ARGENTINA x FRANCE: THE PROVINCE OF SANTA FE DRIVES ENERGY RENOVATION OF ITS PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
The French Development Agency (AFD), through the PEEBCool energy efficiency support program, is offering a sustainable response by modernizing schools, healthcare facilities, and airport infrastructur...
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Sylvain BELLEFONTAINE
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Country Risk Economist
Development economics, country risk analysis, macroeconomics, public policies, financial sector, climate risks
Economist Sylvain Bellefontaine is responsible for monitoring the international economy and serves as the point of contact for climate risks. He focuses in particular on China, Türkiye, Mexico, and Ni...
Leveraging social protection to reduce inequalities in the just transition
Addressing the dual challenge of climate change and inequality require policies delivering on both environmental and social sustainability aspects. In this context, social protection can play a critic...
Publication
AFD Group Campus: Learning together to transform the world
In a complex and uncertain world, new understandings and solutions emerge through the sharing of knowledge and experience. AFD Group Campus develops its training programs with universities, grandes éc...
Editorial page
Central and Eastern Asia Regional Office
Central and Eastern Asia encompasses two subregions of the Asian continent: Central Asia, which stretches from the Caspian Sea to Mongolia, and Eastern Asia, which extends eastward to southern China....
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Agroecology public policies and income inequalities in rural regions in Senegal
The goal of agroecological intensification is to increase productivity while avoiding the adverse environmental effects of mechanized conventional agriculture that uses chemical inputs. In order to ca...
Research project
Changes in Temperature and Rainfall Extremes in Vietnam under Progressive Global Warming Levels from 1.5ºC t...
This study analyzes projected climate extremes in Vietnam using 33 statistically downscaled CMIP6 models across global warming levels (GWLs) from 1.5°C to 4°C. Results reveal significant regional chan...
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Human Rights and Climate Policies - The Human Rights Impacts of Climate Change and Mitigating Measures
This paper summarises and analyses the findings of studies conducted by six National Human Rights Institutions (independent state bodies) in Colombia, The Gambia, Honduras, Kenya, Namibia, and Sierra...
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Understanding the challenges of aging in the Western Balkans
Focusing on three countries in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia), this multidisciplinary research project will explore the challenges of demographic aging and how...
Research project
Africa Facing Its Aging Population: Studying the Challenges for Public Policy
Africa remains a young continent. However, the ongoing demographic transitions are accompanied by an anticipated aging population — and in some countries, this process has already begun. Although a wi...
Research project
Digital Commons in Brazil: Analysis of the Implementation of the Brasil Participativo Platform at the National...
How can digital commons support the empowerment of actors historically excluded from public action? This action-research project follows the development of the Brasil Participativo digital platform, l...
Research project
ESTEEM Cambodia : A Model to Support a Just and Sustainable Development
ESTEEM Cambodia is more than just a modeling exercise. It is a dynamic macroeconomic tool designed to help Cambodian policymakers make informed decisions in real time and plan for a fair and sustainab...
Research project
Christophe BARAT
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Country Risk Economist
Country Risk, Public Finance, Debt Management
Christophe Barat works as a country-risk economist at AFD's Research Department and is interested in public finance and debt management.
Public policies, private higher education development and inequalities
Education plays a crucial role in both the production of and the fight against inequalities, within a single country and between different countries. The rapid increase in the private higher-education...
Research project
Inequalities diagnostics: a tool for analyzing inequalities
Inequality has emerged as the social challenge of the decade. Empirically, a series of influential studies of the available international evidence suggest that global inequality has been falling in th...
Research project
Comparative study of biodiversity metrics for Public Development Banks (PDBs)
As part of this research project, AFD is working with the Biotope/Arcadis consortium to identify the best methods for measuring biodiversity – or "biodiversity metrics" – for Public Development Banks...
Research project
GEMMES South Africa: Evaluating the macroeconomic impacts and policy options for the low-carbon transition
Can South Africa secure the necessary investments to transition to a low-carbon economy and adapt its infrastructure to climate change, while balancing economic growth and maintaining macro-financial...
Research project
GEMMES Brazil: A tool to test public policies for the green transition
Brazil faces significant challenges in its low-carbon transition, including maintaining global competitiveness and avoiding macroeconomic imbalances. To address these, in partnership with the Ministry...
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