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A research facility to better understand inequalities
The program is financed with €4 million from the European Commission and coordinated by AFD, which is leading various studies with academic and institutional partners in a number of developing, emergi...
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AFD & Food For Cities
In a constantly urbanizing world, city governments have come to play a crucial role in urban food policies. From among the challenges facing cities, ensuring food security for their residents is vital...
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Does family size hinder family living standards? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Madagascar
In this paper we try to identify the causal impact of fertility on household welfare in Madagascar using gender of the two first-born children as a source of exogenous variation. The issue of the link...
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Commons: Towards a New Narrative on Development Policies and Practices?
Narratives feed into development policies. They are the outcome of complex interactions between political and economic contexts as well as scientific findings and practices. Narratives are a way to bu...
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Education and migration: insights for policymakers
Connections between migration and education are numerous, both at the macro and micro level. Recognizing this implies that educational policy as well as migration policy may generate spill-over effect...
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AFD and Myanmar
A large, predominantly rural territory rich in natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoys a strategic geographical position between the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. Since 201...
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AFD and Vietnam
AFD supports in Vietnam the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the area of energy transition, resilience of cities and territories, and youth. It offers a wide range of financial instruments...
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Using geographical indications as a development tool
In comparing the contrasting situations of the “Penja pepper” and “Oku white honey” supply chains after their registration as geographical indications (GI) in Cameroon, this technical paper identifies...
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DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health
Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the libera...
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Economic and political stakes of the middle income group expansion in Vietnam
Middle class expansion in formerly poor countries has become the focus point of business groups, development banks and national governments over the latter decade. By naturalizing an income group into...
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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System
For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...
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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated wh...
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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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Developing hydropower in Himachal Pradesh
AFD is assisting the Indian government with its objective of increasing the share of renewable energies in its energy mix. The objective: ensure the country’s energy security, while taking advantage o...
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The highest photovoltaic power plant in the world
The Bolivian government is transforming its electricity mix in favor of renewable energies. AFD is supporting this project through the construction of a photovoltaic solar power plant. The objective:...
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Feeding Jinan’s heating network with heat from wastewater
In Jinan, heat from wastewater will be recovered to supply collective heating for two of the city’s districts. This innovative energy generation technology is in keeping with national objectives of pr...
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Energy recovery from restaurant food waste in Shaoyang
Managing increasing volumes of restaurant food waste has become a major challenge in China. In Shaoyang, AFD is supporting a project that will improve public collection and treatment services for this...
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Reconciling protection efforts with heritage promotion in Xianju National Park
Drawing on the French model for nature park management, Xianju National Park intends to establish a new management model for protected areas combining the preservation of natural and cultural heritage...
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Benin
AFD has been operating in Benin since 1956 and mainly works to improve access to essential services. We are the leading donor for secondary and vocational education and joint leader in the energy sect...
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A mobile phone network for the territory of Wallis-&-Futuna
The Territory is installing an independent mobile phone network – Manuia – to meet the need to improve local telecommunications infrastructure and contribute to opening up the territory.
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