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Macroeconomic country assessment – Mozambique
Mozambique is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectories and macroeconomic and financial situations.
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Measuring the environmental sustainability of Kenya and Vietnam: application of the ESGAP framework
As part of the ECOPRONAT research program, AFD is developing methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a territory, to contribute to the structuring of international standards defini...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Households and Firms in the MENA Region
What is the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on households and firms behaviour in the Middle East and North Africa? A research partnership between AFD and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) p...
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Clermont International Development Hub: strengthening and expanding a regional hub of expertise in internation...
This project aims to strengthen skills and synergies in a regional centre of expertise in international development, located in the city of Clermont-Ferrand (France), and its international outreach. T...
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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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GEMMES Morocco: analyzing the impacts of different climate scenarios on Moroccan agriculture
Due to climate change, the agricultural sector in Morocco is increasingly facing rising temperatures and dwindling water resources. As part of a long-standing collaboration with AFD, the GEMMES Morocc...
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ESTEEM – Exposure to Structural Transition in an Ecological-Economic Model
How can we measure the macroeconomic risks that developing countries may encounter during their low-carbon transition? Developed by AFD, the ESTEEM model (Exposure to Structural Transition in an Ecolo...
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GEMMES Tunisia: Investigating the impact of hydric stress on agriculture, water cycle and the economy
The GEMMES Tunisia project examined the impact of climate change on Tunisian agriculture in particular, and the macroeconomic impact of these changes in general, as well as the benefits of various ada...
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Inequalities, social mobility and perceptions in Mexico
Latin America is one of the regions with the highest economic inequality in the world. Moreover, Mexico shows one of the highest levels of such kind of inequality within the region. Even public offici...
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Cash transfers and economic recovery: The effect of South Africa’s Covid-19 grant on productive economic activ...
The fear that cash transfer programs (or social grants) can discourage labor market participation is common among policymakers locally and around the world, including in South Africa. To refute or con...
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Multidimensional Diagnostic on Inequalities in Colombia
This research project conducted by the Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in close collaboration with DANE and DNP, and in partnership with Fedesarrollo, conducted a comprehensi...
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Analysis of Colombia’s fiscal policy and public spending impact on inequalities
The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in partnership with Fedesarrollo and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Finances implemented the methodology of the Commitment to...
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The National Care System and inequalities in Mexico
The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in partnership with CEEY will design proposals for the design of care systems at level of federal states and of municipalities, which will...
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Distributive impact of green taxes in Mexico
What are the distributional effects of green taxes in Mexico and how can they be quantified? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities program seeks to answer this in collaboration...
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Payments for Ecosystem Services. From Theory to Practice - What Are the Prospects for Developing Countries?
Today, the acronym PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services) has become an omnipresent concept in funding environmental projects, in scientific publications as well as in arenas where environmental and dev...
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Financing Africa‘s Cities : The Imperative of Local Investment
African countries confront vast economic, social, and environmental challenges. Although urban issues bear upon many of these challenges, they have remained a secondary priority for governments and th...
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The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa - Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
As Africa grows and modernizes, it is crucial to understand how to better translate these positive trends into poverty reduction through productive employment, especially for the 7–10 million young pe...
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