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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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Governance of Renewable Natural Resources: Concepts, Methods and Tools
L’approche des questions relatives à l’environnement et à la gestion des ressources naturelles a évolué rapidement au cours des quinze dernières années. Outre de nouvelles mesures d’incitation, c’est...
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Youth and Labour Markets in Africa : A critical review of literature
This survey of literature focuses mainly on economic research done on Sub-Saharan Africa, although some references are reviewed for North Africa. It stresses that an assessment of youth employment pro...
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Culture and development : a review of literature
Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a vocabulary for distinguishing one group of people from another in terms of their dif...
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Regional Trade Agreements and Developing Countries: the Case of the Independent Pacific Island States
The present paper corresponds to Robert Scollay’s contribution at the conference organized by Agence Française de Développement with its CEROM partners on 26 June 2007 in Paris (Maison de la Chimie) o...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Türkiye: Overview and Perspectives
The report is the outcome of four months of collaboration between AFD and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management to examine existing CSR stakeholder initiatives and practices in Türkiye. Betwe...
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Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future
This paper is the executive summary of a collective publication: Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future, edited by Benoît Ferry. This study was born out of a workshop on demography...
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Comparative Fiscal Response Effects of Debt Relief: An application to African HIPCs
As part of the efforts of the international donor community to scale up aid to Africa, substantial debt relief has been granted in recent years through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initi...
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The investment climate in Egypt: Institutions or Relationships as Conditions for Sustainable Reform?
Observations made here show that it is possible to improve the investment climate, achieve effective cooperation between private investors and political decision-makers, fight against corruption and m...
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa Area
During the nineties, the globalization of telecommunications imposed a model of development based on the suppression of public monopolies, leading to international competition and the privatization of...
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External Debt in Low-Income Countries: Taking Stock and New Perspectives
In the wake of debt relief initiatives (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives), there has been a lot of questioning on donors’ lending strategies towards developing...
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Market Access and Specialization in Cash Crops: Vietnam’s Expected Gains from WTO Accession
This paper discusses the link between trade liberalization and farmers’ decisions to specialize in cash crops. Farmers are differentiated between subsistence-oriented farmers and export-oriented cash...
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The Banking System of Vietnam after the Accession to WTO: Transition and its Challenges
Le secteur bancaire vietnamien a été largement restructuré au cours des deux dernières décennies, et les autorités se sont engagées à poursuivre la libéralisation du secteur pour rejoindre l’Organisat...
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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologi...
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Private Sector Participation in the Indian Power
In September 2005, AFD’s Research Department launched a Research Program on Public Private Partnerships with an approach combining economic analysis (contractual incentives, financing of investment, e...
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Informal Recycling vs municipal Waste Service in Asian cities: Opposition or Integration?
Despite being generally poorly recognized by public authorities, informal recycling remains nevertheless a major component in the waste sector, which questions the legitimacy of the official waste arr...
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Peasants Against Private Property Rights: A Review of the Literature
This paper aims at summarizing the main arguments and studies, both theoretical and empirical, on this issue of the privatization of land rights, with a specific focus on the factors that can make pri...
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Out of the financing trap? Financing post-conflict countries and LICUSs
Post-conflict and fragile countries are emerging as a specific group. This group of countries is highly heterogeneous and their situation particularly difficult to address. Some of them are failing to...
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Student Loans: Liquidity Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Although primary education is almost universal in South Africa, and secondary schooling has very wide outreach, higher education has become a severe problem in this emerging country. Enrollment stands...
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