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Social Cohesion and inequality in South Africa
We examine recent trends in social cohesion and inequality, and the relationship between the two in South Africa using date from the South African Reconciliation Barometer Surveys. Given that the coun...
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Vulnerabilities to Crises and Resilience - 2017-2021 Strategy: Executive summary
AFD has chosen to make the fight against vulnerabilities and the response to crises one of the main axes of its activity. Indeed in the 2025 prospective exercise that AFD undertook, the crises – envir...
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A Poverty Forecasting Tool
Poverty reduction has become the focus of economic policy in many Sub-Saharan African countries. As a result, a need for new social indicators has arisen to monitor the application and effectiveness o...
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Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria
A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent a...
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Assessing Credit Guarantee Schemes for SME, Finance in Africa - Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and T...
To assess credit guarantee schemes (CGSs) in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, the authors investigated the entire supply chain running from credit guarantee providers to banks (and other finan...
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia is made up of islands and atolls scattered over 5.5 million square kilometers in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Because of its geographical isolation, it encounters significant econ...
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High Returns, Low Attention, Slow Implementation: The Policy Paradoxes of India‘s Clean Energy Development
L'Inde déclare mener une transition profonde vers une électricité faible en carbone, en doublant ses efforts dans les domaines des énergies renouvelables et de l'efficacité énergétique. Force est de c...
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Measure for Measure - How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2010
Actes de la huitième conférence AFD-EUDN, qui avait réuni plus de 1 000 participants originaires de 30 pays. Les débats portaient sur une question cruciale : la mesure du développement et, donc, sa na...
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The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des expert...
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The Brain Drain: What Do we Know?
For the last decades, the pace of international migration has accelerated. The number of international migrants increased from 154 to 175 million between 1990 and 2000 and is nearing 200 million in th...
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Evaluation and its Discontents: Do We Learn from Experience in Development? Actes de la 9e conférence AFD-EUDN...
This volume presents the proceedings of the conference, “Evaluation and its discontents: do we learn from experience in development?”, jointly organised by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)...
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Public Private Partnerships in Water and Electricity in Africa
The paper analyzes the costs and benefits of private participation in the electricity and water industries in SubSaharan Africa. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the participation of private unregulat...
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Potential Financial Frameworks for a Sustainable UNEO
A recent study undertaken by COWI, a Danish consultancy, and co-financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agence Française de Développement examines the potential financial frameworks...
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Governance of Renewable Natural Resources: Concepts, Methods and Tools
L’approche des questions relatives à l’environnement et à la gestion des ressources naturelles a évolué rapidement au cours des quinze dernières années. Outre de nouvelles mesures d’incitation, c’est...
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Youth and Labour Markets in Africa : A critical review of literature
This survey of literature focuses mainly on economic research done on Sub-Saharan Africa, although some references are reviewed for North Africa. It stresses that an assessment of youth employment pro...
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Culture and development : a review of literature
Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a vocabulary for distinguishing one group of people from another in terms of their dif...
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Defining Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion is one of the most difficult, yet one of the most important, challenges facing South Africa. However, while there is a widespread agreement that social cohesion influences ec...
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From definition to measurement: Constructing a social cohesion index for South Africa
Social cohesion has increasingly become a subject of interest for international organisations, governments, policy-makers and other practitioners. Whilst social cohesion is not a new concept, finding...
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India - 2017-2021 Strategy
With a total net commitment of almost EUR 1.5bn since the opening of AFD’s India agency in 2008 and annual commitments of around EUR 250m since 2013,27 activities in India represent, nearly a quarter...
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AFD and sport: a vehicle for social cohesion and equity
Sport is a valuable tool for helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It contributes to peace, education, gender equality and health and opens up new horizons for development actors, in part...
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