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Kochi Metro: Enhancing mobility and empowering women
AFD has been working with local authorities and the Indian government to support the Kochi Metro project since February 2014. When the metro was first inaugurated, the curious public would come to vis...
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour fo...
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AFD and Ghana
Between 2008 and 2017, AFD invested more than 700 million euros in Ghana. These are funds dedicated for the promotion of high developmental impact projects: improvement of living conditions, reduction...
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Economic impacts of a glacial period: a thought experiment
Increased knowledge about anthropogenic climate change has raised growing concerns about its potential catastrophic impacts on both ecosystems and human societies. Yet, several studies on damages indu...
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Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Technical Efficiency in Vietnamese Agriculture
The aim of this study is to examine farm household-level impacts of weather extreme events on Vietnamese rice technical efficiency. Vietnam is considered among the most vulnerable countries to climate...
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Non-linear Impacts of Climate Change on Income and Inequality in Vietnam
This paper measures the marginal impact of climate variability on Vietnamese households’ income. We combine survey data from the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) database with daily c...
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AFD and public sector reform
States are the primary actors of development, mainly because they are responsible for delivering basic services (such as healthcare and education), and ensuring a peaceful, inclusive socio-economic co...
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AFD and justice
Since it integrated the justice sector among its subject matters in 2016, AFD’s aims to promote access to justice and rights for all, while developing a secure legal environment for goods and people....
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AFD and the Media
Since 2018, AFD has supported professional training for journalists, radio hosts and technicians, and the production of quality, reliable and attractive content. Whether community or national radio st...
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Evaluation of the AFD “Protected Area” conservation and development intervention contributions (2000-2017). Sy...
Since 2000, the AFD and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) have committed financial agreements in direct support to the establishment and management of protected areas (PA). One of the obje...
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AFD Group - 2018 Results
Discover the 2018 annual results of the AFD Group, and the key figures : - €11.4 billion in commitments, up €1 billion in a year (+40% in 3 years) - 846 new development projects launched (94 more th...
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Evaluations Report 2017-2018
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world. Focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban deve...
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The economics of the Syrian refugee crisis in neighboring countries. The case of Lebanon
In this article, we investigate the effects of a massive displacement of workers from a war-torn economy on the economy of a neighboring country. Applying a general equilibrium approach to the Lebanes...
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Mobility and Transport - Sector Operational Framework for AFD Group
The mobility of people and goods is one of the key conditions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): it is indispensable for enabling people to access employment and basic services (h...
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2018 Registration Document
2018 was a year of significant growth and transformation for AFD Group with commitments reaching €11.4 billion, up by €1 billion on the previous financial year. In the course of the year, the Group...
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Do Forest-Management Plans and FSC Certification Help Avoid Deforestation in the Congo Basin?
To allow for the production of timber while preserving conservation values, forestry regulations in the Congo Basin have made Forest Management Plans (FMP) mandatory in logging concessions. This paper...
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Sea level rise: observations, projections and uncertainty
Sea level rise due to climate change is an important risk factor for growing populations living in coastal areas. This issue reports on the observations, projections for the 21st century and major unc...
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: Insights from a multilevel analysis
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions wi...
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Climate change, Inequality and Human Migration
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model j...
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Reaching Brazil's Nationally Determined Contributions: An Assessment of the Key Transitions in Final Demand an...
Brazil has achieved significant advances in climate mitigation by reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last decade. Additionally, Brazil commits to furthering its actions through the Nat...
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