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Semestrial Panorama 2022 #2
The rise in commodity prices had already been happening since mid-2020 and is subject to an in-depth analysis in this third issue of the semi-annual MacroDev Panorama. The objective is to place the dr...
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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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International Financial Architecture and Financial Engineering for the Climate and Nature
The COP climate and biodiversity negotiations often focus on the issue of the financial resources that are mobilized or need to be mobilized for action and investment related to the climate or biodive...
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Tackling climate challenges through financial regulation
In 2015, in the run-up to COP21 in Paris, the speech by Mark Carney, then Governor of the Bank of England and mandated by the G20's Financial Stability Board, made history. He warned of the importance...
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Financial and regulatory policies in the face of climate challenges
In 2015, in the run-up to COP21 in Paris, the speech by Mark Carney, then Governor of the Bank of England and mandated by the G20's Financial Stability Board, made history. He warned of the importance...
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How do global decarbonization trends create external risks for emerging and developing economies?
The low-carbon transition, despite its imperative nature, is likely to present both economic and social opportunities as well as downside risks, depending on the companies, sectors, or regions. The as...
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Sustainability-Linked Bonds and Credit Enhancement: New Approaches for PDB Financing
The investments needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals particularly in emerging markets and developing economies, require the mobilization of more available capital. Public development ba...
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Armenia:Democratic impulse,economic growth and the challenges of transformation for an economy under pressure
The strong economic growth supported by the influx of Russian migrants in 2022 and 2023 (12.6% and 8.3%, respectively), combined with improvements in the macro-fiscal framework driven by the ongoing S...
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How can research inform public policies in Viet Nam in the face of climate change and energy transition?
Viet Nam is aiming for Net-Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while sustaining economic growth. Achieving these targets is even more challenging due to global warming, especially increased cli...
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Martinique
Located in the middle of the Antilles archipelago, Martinique is rich in exceptional national heritage and boasts a strong economy. However, it needs to reduce ongoing social and territorial inequalit...
Regions and countries
Conference : "Human Rights and Development"
On 10 December 2021, AFD Group organized an international conference on "Human Rights and Development" that brought together 500 actors from the development community in the North and in the South....
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of Youth
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of the Child
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Western Balkans
Present in the Western Balkans since 2019, AFD's mandate is to support the convergence of countries in the region towards European Union standards and the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement...
Regions and countries
Redesigning the South African “Social Relief Distress” grant program for higher impact
How could the Social Relief Distress grant be redesigned to maximize impact on poverty and unemployment reduction, while being sustainable in the longer term? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Faci...
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Community Explorer: Informing policy and planning in South Africa
How can we better understand local realities and more particularly socio-economic outcomes at the community level? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in partnership with the...
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Côte d’Ivoire: Yopougon’s future embodied by women
In Abidjan, the Yopougon district embodies the challenges faced by many large African cities: extreme population density, a predominantly informal economy, and persistent inequalities in access to hea...
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Improve agricultural yield in rural areas
To combat poverty and food insecurity, AFD is assisting the Cambodian authorities in devising an agricultural policy. The Agency is also helping to implement a programme to renovate irrigation infrast...
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