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Understanding the role of taxation in the fight against inequalities
Via their tax component and their component of transfers and public expenditure, budget policies are a crucial instrument for governments in their fight against inequalities. This research project see...
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Impact of affordable housing on inequalities in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town - South Africa
This study deals with the new forms of affordable housing and public housing in South African cities. The objective? To determine whether these projects help reduce economic inequalities and encourage...
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Urban inequalities within Jordan cities hosting refugees
This study analyzes trends in inequalities between 2010 and 2016 in the two main Jordanian cities hosting Syrian refugees: 194,000 Syrians in Amman and 140,000 in Irbid, according to 2018 data of the...
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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...
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Understanding the dynamics of the earnings distribution in South Africa
Despite a democratic governance, well-established judicial, financial and human rights institutions and a positive policy framework, poverty and inequality are still largely cast along historical line...
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Inequalities in urban water services in La Paz and El Alto - Bolivia
Inequalities in urban water services are often perceived simplistically, according to a binary interpretation of “access/non-access,” with an end goal of making access to this public service universal...
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Analyzing inequalities from the perspective of health, education, and employment trajectories in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has enjoyed relatively strong economic growth throughout the past ten years (more than 5% per year on average). Nevertheless, a non-negligible portion of the country’s population lives be...
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Multidimensional inequalities study in Vietnam
This project seeks to contribute to the goals of the research facility on inequalities through the analysis of multidimensional inequalities in Vietnam. The project will address the following key ques...
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Analysis of multidimensional inequalities and impact of regional policies on inequalities in Central America a...
AFD, AECID and Oxfam are committed to reverse rising inequality in order to reduce poverty in a significant and lasting manner through a human right approach. The research process will conduct a regio...
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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...
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Inequalities in access to basic services and impact of public policies in Côte d'Ivoire
While the Ivorian economy is experiencing a definite upturn, there is hardly any decline in the level of poverty and inequalities. This research program has been included in the Strategic Dialog Memor...
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The distributional impact of social protection: short- and longer-run inequalities in Ethiopia, India and Peru
The project aims to establish the causal impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in India, Ethiopia and Peru on both the level of economic resources and a number of dimensions of inequal...
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Assessing equity in health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa - Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia
This research project examines the equity benefit of total health spending with particular focus on the recent Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, by looking at the distribu...
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Madagascar
A continent-island rich in unique biodiversity and potential, Madagascar is today one of the poorest countries in the world. Since 1952, AFD has been committed to supporting sustainable development th...
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Inequalities diagnostic and fiscal incidence study in Kenya
Although substantial progress has been made in the fight against poverty, disease, and illiteracy since independence in Kenya, a remaining challenge is linked to inequality. An understanding of inequa...
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The dynamics and interactions of income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Ghana
Led by the University of Ghana, this research project focuses on inequalities in Ghana, where they remain at important levels although this country has experienced rapid economic growth and significan...
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Ocean and commons: Conserving marine biodiversity on the high seas
Often referred to in the singular, the ocean is nonetheless a plural space, built according to the diversity of society’s relationship to the sea. Through the study of an oceanographic phenomenon in t...
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Macroeconomic country-assessment – Angola
Angola 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 – Argentina
Argentina 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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GEMMES Côte d'Ivoire: designing a tool for the sustainable energy transition
Côte d'Ivoire, whose current electricity production is largely based on natural gas, has affirmed its commitment in favor of the energy transition. The GEMMES Côte d'Ivoire project studies the interac...
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