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The Brain Drain: What Do we Know?
For the last decades, the pace of international migration has accelerated. The number of international migrants increased from 154 to 175 million between 1990 and 2000 and is nearing 200 million in th...
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Aid for Trade in Developing Countries : Complex Linkages for Real Effectiveness
Aid for trade is intended to support the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. Although this form of aid is being hailed as a promising new development tool, it lacks the...
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Egyptian Industry since the Early 1970s: A History of Thwarted Development
The political will to promote industry in Egypt has thus been affirmed for many years, under a variety of strategies. To what extent has Egypt’s industrial performance matched the effort invested? Has...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the BENIN Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Ethiopia Field Survey
This report is an integral part of the survey and analysis work launched by the Research Department of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) on training in the informa...
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Thailand: The World‘s Leading Exporter of Natural Rubber Owing to its Smallholders
Thailand is currently the world‘s leading exporter of natural rubber, accounting for 33% of the annual volume traded. In addition to its quantitative performance, the case of Thailand is noteworthy in...
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Is "Good Governance" a Good Development Strategy?
New data, new concepts, new results: This working paper offers tools to rethink the role of "good governance" in development strategies. What is "good governance"? Transparency of public action, con...
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Development, a question of opportunity?
The World Bank‘s World Development Report 2006 published in September 2005 addresses Equity and Development. The report defines equity as respect for equal opportunities combined with the avoidance of...
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The Global Discourse on “Participation” and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection
This paper inquires into the nature of “participation” as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that “participation” is a type of “global discourse”...
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American Philanthropic Foundations: Emerging Actors of Globalization and Pillars of the TransAtlantic Dialog
A recent study by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Agence Française de Développement, undertaken in partnership with the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) of Paris, ill...
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Energy Efficiency Policies in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
Most papers dealing with energy efficiency policies focus on the policies and measures implemented in OECD countries and this may lead one to think that only the “rich” countries are developing effort...
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Development Aid Reforms in the Context of New Public Management
The purpose of this article is to analyse reforms to the international development aid policy based on the concepts of New Public Management. Three principles are particularly discussed: the segmentat...
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Community participation in the Pantanal, Brazil: containment games and learning processes
In this paper, we inquire into how “community participation” (CP) played out in the creation of the Pantanal Regional Park (PRP), a large-scale participatory initiative launched in 1998 in the Brazili...
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Institutional Profiles Database III - Presentation of the Institutional Profiles Database 2009 (IPD 2009)
This document presents an overview of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) 2009. The IPD offers researchers a quantitative evaluation of the institutional characteristics of 123 countries coverin...
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World Energy Prospects and Stakes - A New Paradigm
To pursue the present path in the development of energy systems would lead to growing insecurity of supply and an unacceptable increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Both climate change (and other envi...
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The Governance of Climate Change in Developing Countries - A Report on International and Domestic Climate Chan...
Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have f...
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Payments for Ecosystem Services. From Theory to Practice - What Are the Prospects for Developing Countries?
Today, the acronym PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services) has become an omnipresent concept in funding environmental projects, in scientific publications as well as in arenas where environmental and dev...
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Financing Africa‘s Cities : The Imperative of Local Investment
African countries confront vast economic, social, and environmental challenges. Although urban issues bear upon many of these challenges, they have remained a secondary priority for governments and th...
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The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa - Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
As Africa grows and modernizes, it is crucial to understand how to better translate these positive trends into poverty reduction through productive employment, especially for the 7–10 million young pe...
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Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited - Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizi...
Many late developing countries face tremendous challenges: They have to deal simultaneously with their economic and demographic transitions in the context of globalization and under the constraints of...
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