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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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Can Arabo-Islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa be ignored?
Arab-Islamic education in general, and Koranic schools in particular, are still largely excluded from programs advocating for education for all in Africa. Consequently, recognizing its existence, its...
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
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Brochure ARIZ
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up the bulk of the economic base in developing and emerging countries. To create and develop their activity, they need medium and long-term financial res...
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Water and sanitation: mid-term review of the sectorial intervention framework for 2014-2018
This document is the water and sanitation mid-term review of the sectorial intervention framework for 2014-2018
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Prevention or treatment? The introduction of a new antimalarial drug in Angola
In spite of massive efforts to generalize efficient prevention, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) or long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), malaria remains prevalent in many countries a...
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Brochure AFD and European partnership
AFD and European Union (EU) institutions have decided to strengthen their partnership, with the aim of enhancing their effectiveness in development assistance and the fight against extreme poverty. O...
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AFD and capacity development support
In the poorest countries, the weak capacities of project initiators, both public (ministries, local authorities) and private (banks, local companies, professional organizations), are often the first b...
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AFD and sustainable urban transport and mobility
Urban mobility is a core challenge for cities. In order to ensure that development is sustainable, inclusive and economically effective, the challenge lies in limiting the congestion that hinders citi...
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AFD Group and Türkiye
Türkiye has undergone rapid development and transformation in recent decades. Today, its challenge is to rebuild itself in the aftermath of the earthquakes of February 2023, aiming for greater resili...
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Brochure AFD and Mozambique
Mozambique has recorded one of the highest economic growth rates in Africa since the end of the civil war in 1992. The recent discoveries of significant coal and gas deposits and the phasing in of the...
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Brochure AFD and energy transition in island territories
In the energy sector, island states and France’s overseas territories have a number of common characteristics that are specific to isolated systems: absence of local fossil resources, high cost of fue...
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AFD and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka reached the lower middle-income status in 2010 and continued to experience rapid economic growth during the following years. The country alsoexperienced free elections in January 2015 that c...
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The Economics of Spatial Sustainability: General Theory and Application to Climate Change
This paper formalizes the notion of "spatial sustainability‘ of an economy in the presence of local and global environmental externalities. An extension is offered here of a new economic geography (NE...
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Energy and Development in Emerging Countries
Energy is an important component of the economy and is a fundamental factor of production. In general we expect is use to grow in some relation to growth in economic activity. Empirically we see a clo...
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