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Assessing the distributional impacts of development interventions - the Inequality Marker
Persistent economic and social inequalities constrain the inclusive development of nations. The internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG10) and its targets, aim to address these con...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2025 #1
As we move into 2025, the legitimacy of the world order inherited from the fall of the Iron Curtain is confronted more than ever with the “ambivalent superpower” of the United States, already describe...
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L'économie africaine 2025: English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
Since 2020, La Découverte and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have published an annual edition of L’Économie africaine, aiming to provide an accessible macroeconomic analysis of the Africa...
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AFD in Papua New Guinea
In July 2023, France annonuced significant development funding, and the opening of an AFD office in PNG. The first AFD officer posted in PNG arrived in June 2024. Expertise France, AFD’s technical sub...
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Escaping child labour in Tanzania
Across Tanzania, 4.2 million children are subjected to the worst forms of forced labor. Discover the inspiring stories of children from northern Tanzania's Geita region who were able to escape the gri...
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Proposal for the extension, redesign, and repurposing of the SRD for the goal of poverty reduction
The study examines the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant (hereafter ‘SRD’) and provides recommendations to maximise its impact on poverty reduction. The SRD showed itself to be an excel...
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Reducing Pollution from Cooking Smoke: key lessons from the REDGAS randomized study in Burkina Faso
Universal access to clean and efficient cooking remains an environmental and health challenge: despite progress in electrification, wood-based cooking is still widely used in many countries. The REDGA...
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AFD group’s regional offer in the Atlantic region
Composed of the French Development Agency (AFD), in charge of financing the public sector and NGOs, research and training, its subsidiary Proparco, dedicated to fi nancing and support for the private...
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Minka, the Peace and Resilience Fund - 2023 Activity report
Minka Fund: a pioneering fund run by AFD and the French government to address questions of gender and gender-based violence in crisis zones. In 2023, nearly 100% of Minka projects helped boost gend...
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AFD SUPPORTS ETHIOPIAN ECONOMIC REFORM PROGRAM
Following two decades of dynamic growth between 2000 and 2020, Ethiopia has been facing major crises. Conflicts, natural disasters, food insecurity, illiteracy and inequalities, particularly in post-c...
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Suriname: for a future sustainable green
Suriname, which borders French Guiana in South America, is the most forested country in the world. However, it faces economic, environmental and social challenges. Aware of these challenges, France, t...
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Agriculture, rural development and biodiversity - 2023 Activity Report
AFD financing in areas such as farming, livestock raising, management of forest and fishery resources, as well as ecosystem preservation adopts an integrated territorial approach that takes climate ch...
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Infography - Our activity in favor of Agriculture, rural development and biodiversity in 2023
In 2023, AFD invested €1.2 billion euros in favor of agriculture, rural development and biodiversity. Africa remains a priority for the Group in this sector, accounting for almost 40% of financing and...
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Research Paper No. 325 | Switching Roles: Gender differences in time use and mental health in Ghana
We explore the association between domestic labor and psychological distress among women and men in Ghana. A growing body of literature has recently focused on the relationship between time use and me...
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AFD and the Just Energy Transition
The concept of “just transition” came about from the realization of the link between the environmental and social crises. It takes into account the interests of workers and disadvantaged people in the...
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Dimensions of the Just Energy Transition: the french experience
As in other countries, the social and economic impact of the ecological transition is a pressing issue in France. In May 2023, a report titled "The Economic Impact of Climate Action" (also known as th...
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Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policies: A Survey of Methodological Approaches
This research paper is meant to be a guide for analysts and policymakers on available tools for assessing the distributional impact of existing fiscal systems as well as policy reforms. In particular,...
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Accelerating Daily Carpooling in the French Overseas Territories
In the French Overseas territories, as in mainland France, individual car use is largely predominant, generating negative externalities (environmental and economic). It is all the more important in th...
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In Quest for Meaning: Towards a Common Understanding of the 2030 Agenda?
Recent developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP) are revolutionizing knowledge management (Hu et al. 2023). The generation of Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, breaks down barriers between...
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The Inequality Diagnostic Report: Indonesia
The Inequality Diagnostic Report measures multidimensional aspects of inequalities in Indonesia in the last decade, while also identifying policies that shape the current state of inequality in the co...
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