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Youth inclusion in labor markets in Niger: Evidence from Tahoua and Zinder
How do intersecting vulnerabilities affect the quality of young women and men inclusion in labor markets in Niger and their ability to move out of and remain out of poverty? How do different forms of...
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New Caledonia: A New Tool to Measure Environmental Sustainability
Measuring the environmental impact of economic activities can be a complicated business. A new pilot project, assesses New Caledonia's environmental sustainability, based on the Environmental Sustaina...
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Digital labour platforms in Buenos Aires: Working conditions and gender inequality
What is the effect of app-based platforms for the personal service sector in Argentina? This project explores the labour conditions and performance experienced on the platform by workers like food del...
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Urban land-based commons for housing in the Global South
This research project focused on collective arrangements for access to land and housing in developing cities that are linked with the concept of commons. It studied the implementation of some collecti...
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SDG Prospector – Mobilizing AI to achieve the 2030 Agenda
Faced with major social and environmental transitions, an increasing number of companies and institutions are called upon to account for the extra-financial impacts of their activities. The SDG Prospe...
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ENGULF: Assessing exposure to relative sea-level rise along the Gulf of Guinea
The coastline of the Gulf of Guinea is lowly elevated and particularly vulnerable to sea level rise triggered by climate change. However, in some places, another important factor has to be taken into...
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Measuring environmental sustainability in Colombia and South Africa: application of the ESGAP framework
Within the framework of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD supports the development of methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability at the level of a territory - and more particularly i...
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Developing the ESGAP method in order to assess physical risks related to economic activities
As part of the ECOPRONAT research program, AFD is seeking to develop new applications of the ESGAP framework, a methodology for assessing environmental sustainability at the scale of a territory. Focu...
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Assessing the concrete effects of climate change education on ecological transitions
AFD funded two systematic literature reviews to assess the concrete effects of climate change education (CCE) on ecological transitions. By examining their impact on the knowledge, attitudes and behav...
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Evaluating the Covid-19 redistributive policies in Mexico and Colombia
What has been the redistributive impact of social and fiscal policies in Mexico and Colombia, in the context of the policies implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic? The EU-AFD Research Facility on I...
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Rethinking the evaluation of developing countries' fight against inequality and climate change
How can we measure the efforts made by developing countries to combat the inequalities and the impacts of climate change while taking into account the socioeconomic structure of these countries? The E...
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Measuring the impact of spatial inequality and quality of institutions on subjective wellbeing
How do spatial variation in inequality and quality of institutions interact to explain variation in subjective wellbeing in South Africa? The EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities will seek to answ...
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Analysing the impacts of Covid-19 and of the “Novissi” program on income inequality in Togo
Through which channels did the Covid-19 pandemic impact inequalities in Togo? What have been the effects of the “Novissi” cash transfer program implemented by the Togolese government on the mitigation...
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Macroeconomic country assessment – Ecuador
Ecuador 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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Egypt Labour Market Panel Survey (ELMPS 2023)
AFD and the Economic Research Forum (ERF), in collaboration with the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), are supporting the implementation of the fifth wave of the...
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Redesigning the South African “Social Relief Distress” grant program for higher impact
How could the Social Relief Distress grant be redesigned to maximize impact on poverty and unemployment reduction, while being sustainable in the longer term? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Faci...
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Green jobs, pension system and inequality after retirement in Colombia
How can green transition policies impact labour market segmentation between formal and informal sectors in Colombia? What consequences on income inequality after retirement? The Extension of the EU-AF...
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Analyzing the employment effects of the “green economy” transition in South Africa
Extreme weather events resulting from the effects of climate change coupled with a global call for countries to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions imply that the transition to a “green” econo...
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Reconceptualizing voluntary carbon markets: proposal for an ecological accounting framework for carbon credits
To what extent do carbon credits and voluntary carbon markets really contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement? By opening the "black box" of these instruments, th...
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Reducing spatial inequalities through efficient public service delivery in Colombia
Reducing spatial inequalities is a priority for the Colombian government, which uses a public policy tool – the General Participation System (GPS) – to achieve this objective. This research project ai...
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