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Evaluation Summary - Credit lines to Rand merchant bank (RMB), Nedbank and Amalgamated banks of South Africa (...
In South Africa, for the “Low-cost housing” sector, the credit lines to Rand merchant bank (RMB), Nedbank and Amalgamated banks of South Africa (ABSA) were subject to an evaluation in July 2017. Th...
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Agricultural information systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking the role of governments in the age of priva...
Information systems play a key role in agricultural risk management strategies and production and marketing decision optimisation strategies. This makes them an important tool for poverty reduction in...
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Financial performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from National Development Banks in Africa
This is a draft discussion paper and has not been through an external peer review process. A final ODI working paper will be published after the research conference. This study aims to examine the...
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Decentralisation and the Free Basic Water Policy in South Africa: What Role for the Private Sector?
Within the debate on the private sector‘s role in SubSaharan Africa, the authors were prompted to undertake a more detailed examination of South Africa as a country that is prioritising service access...
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Evaluation of projects with climate adaptation co-benefits in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar (2007-2018)
Since 2015, AFD’s financing for projects with "adaptation" co-benefits - helping to respond to the risks associated with global warming while targeting other development objectives - has risen sharply...
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South Africa: from cow manure to green energy
In South Africa, a brand-new action has come into being: cow manure is being used. Sean Thomas, a South African entrepreneur, has set up a plant that produces biogas energy. In brief, rather than leav...
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Spatial Inequality, Sub-regional governance and Subjective Well-being - The case of South Africa
This paper examines how spatial variation in inequality and quality of institutions interact to explain variation in subjective wellbeing. Literature suggests that better institutions and lower level...
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Multi-dimensional inequalities, climate governance and livelihoods in sub-saharan Africa
Recurring drought and other severe weather events, combined with unstable energy supply in this region, jeopardize socio-economic development and livelihoods. States’ abilities to provide basic servic...
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Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands : Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including many poor....
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Getting from Good Intentions to Effective Action: A Proposal for a Just Transition Partnering Implementation M...
The paper calls for implementation plans arising from the just transition framework in South Africa to be based on an explicit collaborative and adaptive approach and proposes a Partnering Implementat...
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A Strategy for Reducing Inequalities in West Africa
Reducing economic and social inequalities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Senegal requires a set of policies clearly focused on the most remote areas of these countries and the particular cha...
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South-South cooperation and new agricultural development aid actors in western and southern Africa - China and...
The aim of this study is to better understand, from the information collected on missions undertaken in Senegal, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, and Brazil, the scope and methods of Chinese and Brazilian co...
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Can Cash Transfers to the Unemployed Support Economic Activity? Evidence from South Africa
Persistently high unemployment has plagued South Africa over the last few decades, while concurrently there has been a dearth of state-provided income support to the working-age economically active po...
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Linkages between Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores linkages between women’s education and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, using DHS data from about 30 countries. There are three substantive sets of analyses. First, we shed light o...
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Sub-Saharan Africa's significant changes in food consumption patterns
Self-produced food amounts to less than half of the total food that people consume, and the provision of food is therefore largely reliant on market supply, in urban and rural areas alike; domestic fo...
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The renewal of urban public transport in Africa
In response to rapid urbanization and booming demographics, African cities are reimagining their transport systems. After decades dominated by informal modes of transport – such as minibuses and motor...
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The Impact of the Green Transition on Jobs in South Africa
One of the key issues in policy discussions over addressing climate concerns the ways in which countries need to and can balance the combating of climate change with job creation and economic developm...
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Earnings inequality over the life-course in South Africa
This paper revisits the measure of inequality introducing a dynamic dimension, which allows analysing inequality over the life course.
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Food Reserves and Regulating Market Volatility in Africa
The aim of this study is to examine public food storage systems in developing countries, particularly Africa. In which context is it pertinent to set up one type of stock over another? What conditions...
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The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa : A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, ...
For the past two decades, experiments in decentralization and federalization have been developing in Africa, Asia, and the formerly communist states of Eastern Europe. Many of the powers previously in...
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