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Green Growth and its Implications for Public Policy: The Case of South Africa
South Africa is a rapidly growing middle-income economy with a coal-based energy system that generates high greenhouse gases emissions, on a par with the richest economies in the world. The country ha...
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AFD - Overview
Building a more just and more sustainable world for all – a world in common – requires successfully achieving five main transitions, both over here and over there: energy, digital, territorial, demogr...
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Cocoa farmers’ agricultural practices and livelihoods in Côte d’Ivoire
Cocoa production in Côte d‘Ivoire has more than doubled over the last four decades, from 565 thousand tons in 1984 to approximatively 1.5 million tons in recent years. This increase has been mainly du...
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The Quality of Growth: Accounting for Sustainability
This paper has three purposes. First, it follows the UN conceptual and measurement approach in providing a welfare theoretic framework for sustainability. The intergenerational conditions for sustaina...
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Assessing and Addressing Climate Governance Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This guide is intended to help staff of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and other interested stakeholders identify and address potential domestic governance barriers to implementing and enhanc...
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Environmental and social complaints mechanism of AFD
Environmental and social complaints mechanism of AFD
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Better together? A Study on Philanthropy and Official Development Assistance
Based on a survey among philanthropic foundations (N=55) from all continents with a total annual budget for charitable goals of approx. 10,2 billion USD in 2015 (N=44), this study sheds light on the r...
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Philanthropy in the Arab World
This paper is an introduction to the current status of philanthropic giving in the Arab Countries. The paper is based upon previous research of the authors, mainly the PhD thesis of Marwa El-Daly, whi...
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Vietnam -2021-2025 Strategy
Even though Vietnam was one of the world’s poorest countries in the mid-1980s, it achieved LMIC status in 2010. Vietnam has initiated its transition to a low-carbon trajectory, but remains economicall...
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Carbon Pricing and Global Warming: A Stock-flow Consistent Macro-dynamic Approach
To what extent can a worldwide carbon pricing foster the transition towards a low-carbon economy and help mitigate the effects of global warming? We address this question using a stock-flow consistent...
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Environmental and Social Framework
The present document establishes the Environmental and Social Framework of the AFD and GCF ‘Transforming Financial Systems for Climate’ Programme. It describes standards, procedures, processes and too...
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Philanthropic Foundations in Asia: Insights from Singapore, Myanmar and China
This study looks at an emerging trend in which wealthy families, individuals, and corporations in Asia set up foundations to institutionalise their giving. This giving is motivated by a myriad of fact...
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Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the poorest countries in the world. Following the crisis from 2013 to 2015, the improvement in the political context is an opportunity for CAR to take the...
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Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis
Using the 2011 South African population census, we provide income and multidimensional poverty and inequality estimates at the municipal level. We go on to estimate a spatial econometric model to iden...
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Vulnerabilities to crises and resilience - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD’s motto, « A word in common », illustrates the interdependence of women and men who share the same space and destiny. Crises – whether relating to security, politics, health, food, economics, soci...
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Céline Gilquin: Water issue a major challenge
In the context of the next World Water Forum, which will kick off on 18 March in Brazil, Céline Gilquin, Head of AFD’s Water and Sanitation Division, gives details about the key challenges concerning...
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Kenya - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD group has been operating in Kenya since 1995 via its subsidiary PROPARCO. AFD subsequently opened an agency in Nairobi in 1997, with a regional competence for the five countries which make up the...
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