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AFD corporate social responsibility 2016
AFD corporate social responsibility 2016
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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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AFD Group Ethics Charter
AFD Group has a Professional Ethics Charter which sets out the mission, values and commitments that guide its positions and modes of action. A public document, the Ethics Charter outlines the key r...
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Sibling social networks and labor market outcomes in Niger: are there any spillover effects?
In this study, based on the Niger 2012 labor force survey, we assess the importance of the effect of siblings on Niger labor market integration and the potential heterogeneity of this effect. Our main...
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Dualism, Poverty Exits and Growth Accelerations
We propose a simple theoretical model to study the dynamics of an economy in which individuals move out of poverty trap. These dynamics are characterized by growth acceleration and temporarily growing...
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Testing Goodwin with a Stochastic Differential Approach – The United States (1948-2017)
This paper follows Harvie (2000)’s research program in testing both Goodwin (1967)’s predator-prey model and the extension proposed by van der Ploeg (1985). The author’s aim is to provide a guideline...
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Evaluation of the CIS Energy 2012-2016
The consortium EY-ECONOLER has been commissioned by the Evaluation and Knowledge Capitalisation (EVA) unit of the French Development Agency (AFD) in order to evaluate its Sectoral Intervention Framewo...
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Quality Signaling through Certification in Developing Countries
This paper studies how the signaling of the credence attributes of consumer goods distorts their market equilibrium in developing countries. Costs of certification, sunk in order to achieve credibilit...
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Fair Trade? Yes, but not at Christmas! Evidence from scanner data on real French Fairtrade purchases
Responsible consumption based on labels arouses enthusiasm among the community of development (donors, NGOs, researchers, policy makers). Indeed, information provision may appear as a “third wave” of...
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The use of multi-bi aid by France in comparison with other donor countries
This study provides an analysis of the French usage of multi-bi aid in comparison to other large donors of development assistance. Using a diverse set of methods, including document analysis, intervie...
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Double Dividend of Low-carbon Growth in Mexico: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Assessment
This paper simulates the medium- and long-term impact of proposed and expected energy policy on the environment and on the Mexican economy. The analysis has been conducted with a Multi-sector Macroeco...
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Relational Capability Index 2.0
Relational Capabilities, as introduced by Giraud et al. (2013) aims to introduce social capital and social inclusion in the capabilities paradigm. This paper presents RCI 2.0, an alternative version o...
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The Politics of Results and Struggles over Value and Meaning in International Development
The paper begins with a political history of the 'results’ discourse in the public sector in general and in development aid in particular. It examines perceptions of the effects of the discourse’s art...
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The Impact of Rural Electrification Challenges and Ways Forward
Rigorous impact evaluation that includes appropriately selected control groups must be a part of rural electrification program designs. Budgeting evaluation activities and engaging with evaluators at...
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Economic Development: Is Social Capital Persistent?
This paper, on the one hand, goes a step closer to demonstrate the causality of social capital on economic performance. On the other hand, we confirm a continued role of social capital effects on econ...
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A Simple Model of Agglomeration Economies with Environmental Externalities
This paper develops a simple though comprehensive economic theory of the relationship between space and environment. It generalizes earlier modeling efforts to address agglomeration and environmental...
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Powering Africa: Facing the Financing and Reform Challenges
Africa faces chronic power problems, including insufficient generation capacity, low connectivity, poor reliability and high costs, all of which constrain development. Power capacity additions in Sub-...
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Impacts of Rural Electrification Revisited: The African Context
The investment requirements to achieve the United Nations’ universal electricity access goal by 2030 are estimated at 640 billion US Dollars. The assumption underlying this goal is that electrificatio...
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International emigration and labour market outcomes of women staying behind: the case of Morocco
We tackle the issue of women's activity rates in Morocco by adopting a mixed method approach. Using the 2007 household survey, we find that having a migrant in the household increases women's labour p...
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Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Groundwater
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the...
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