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Improving water security in urban areas
This project aims to improve water supply and sanitation in the urban areas of Musoma, Bu-koba, Mwanza, Tabora, Morogoro, Dodoma and Dar es Salaam.
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Gender and Income Distribution in a High- Informality Context: A CEQ-Based Analysis for Colombia
This study assesses the extent to which Colombia’s fiscal policy mitigates gender gaps in income and poverty. Using the fiscal incidence methodology developed by the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institu...
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Enhancing Environmental Sustainability Through the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) Framework in Colom...
We encourage Colombian policymakers and stakeholders to leverage the detailed insights the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework provides to refine and strengthen environmental policies....
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Modelling low-carbon transitions in Colombia: macrofinancial opportunities and risks
With over fifty percent of its total exports consisting of petroleum and coal, Colombia remains highly vulnerable to both global and domestic energy transitions. With the aim of fostering policy dialo...
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Extension of the Research Facility on Inequalities in South Africa
How can we support the reduction of socio-economic inequalities while addressing the challenges of the low carbon transition? The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities seeks to add...
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Vietnam at a crossroads: avoiding the middle-income trap while addressing climate challenges
Following three decades of strong growth (7% on average) which enabled the country to eradicate extreme poverty and reach middle-income status, Vietnam continues to offer highly attractive prospects....
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Comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks (PDBs)
This study provides a comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement tools for Public Development Banks (PDBs). The aim is to evaluate the accessibility and the added value of six predefined biodive...
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A living laboratory in Türkiye shines a light on the future of French forests
Between 2019 and 2022, Agence Française de Développement supported a sustainable forest partnership program between Türkiye and France, focused on adapting to climate change and protecting biodiversit...
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Comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge, pushing public development banks (PDBs) to align with frameworks such as the GBF, TNFD, and CSRD. To support this, AFD and EBRD assessed six biodiversity...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2024 #2
2024 was supposed to be a year of rate cuts, ending with a question mark over the US elections which would reopen the scenarios for 2025… Yet, firstly, inflation is struggling to leave the stage and g...
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Türkiye – Maintaining the new course, for prosperity…and posterity
A diversified and industrialized economy, a NATO member since 1952, a founding member of the OECD in 1961 and a member of the G20, Türkiye [1] enjoys an enviable geostrategic position. Its development...
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Georgia - Put to the test by the war in Ukraine
A small Western Asian country, Georgia has an outward-looking economic model,mainly based on services such as trade and tourism. The Georgian economy is thus highly vulnerable to external shocks and w...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2024 #1
Three decades ago, it was believed that the end of the (first) Cold War would herald the “end of history” and the advent of economic globalization dominated by multinational companies, relegating gove...
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Philippines – Preserving economic stability, financing development and anticipating climate issues
Referred to as the “sick man of Asia” during the last third of the 20th century, the Philippines has recorded dynamic economic growth since the mid-2000s and is beginning to catch up with the more adv...
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Angola
Africa's largest oil producer, Angola is striving to rebuild itself after a 30 year-long civil war, at the same time as tackling a major economic crisis related to the international oil price shocks....
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Mozambique — Completing the successful transformation of the development model
Mozambique, a country in southern Africa that stretches for 2,800 km along the Indian Ocean, is the fifth-poorest state on the planet, with alarming human development indicators. Despite having had ro...
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Bibliometric analysis of literature combining gender and the commons
This research is based on a bibliometric analysis of the academic literature linking the gender perspective with that of the commons. The idea is not to report on all the theoretical and empirical con...
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Stimulus effects of a large public employment programme
We characterize the spending and factor income effects of a large public employment programme in South Africa. We match anonymized participant IDs with weekly individual-level sales data from one of t...
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Measuring social norms towards women and work in Tunisia. An assessment of the ‘opinion-matching’ method
The presence of patriarchal social norms and traditional gender roles is a potential explanation for persistent inequalities in labor market opportunities for women in the MENA region. We investigate...
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Development Finance Institutions: New directions for the future
In an evolving development landscape, the urgency for Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to innovate, adapt and deliver is intensifying. In this context, four discussions – focusing on DFIs’ addi...
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