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Commons: Towards a New Narrative on Development Policies and Practices?
Narratives feed into development policies. They are the outcome of complex interactions between political and economic contexts as well as scientific findings and practices. Narratives are a way to bu...
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Education and migration: insights for policymakers
Connections between migration and education are numerous, both at the macro and micro level. Recognizing this implies that educational policy as well as migration policy may generate spill-over effect...
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AFD and Myanmar
A large, predominantly rural territory rich in natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoys a strategic geographical position between the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. Since 201...
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AFD and Vietnam
AFD supports in Vietnam the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the area of energy transition, resilience of cities and territories, and youth. It offers a wide range of financial instruments...
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Using geographical indications as a development tool
In comparing the contrasting situations of the “Penja pepper” and “Oku white honey” supply chains after their registration as geographical indications (GI) in Cameroon, this technical paper identifies...
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DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health
Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the libera...
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Economic and political stakes of the middle income group expansion in Vietnam
Middle class expansion in formerly poor countries has become the focus point of business groups, development banks and national governments over the latter decade. By naturalizing an income group into...
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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System
For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...
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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated wh...
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Kochi Metro: Enhancing mobility and empowering women
AFD has been working with local authorities and the Indian government to support the Kochi Metro project since February 2014. When the metro was first inaugurated, the curious public would come to vis...
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour fo...
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AFD and Ghana
Between 2008 and 2017, AFD invested more than 700 million euros in Ghana. These are funds dedicated for the promotion of high developmental impact projects: improvement of living conditions, reduction...
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Best Practice Guide – Security Plan
This guide aims to highlight the consideration of security issues and provides good practices for developing a dedicated plan. It is intended for all entities that are beneficiaries or potential be...
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Transport Infrastructure and the Spatial Evolution of the Productive Structure in Brazil
This paper analyzes the impact of large scale investments on transport infrastructure on the spatial evolution of the productive structure in Brazil, in particular the industry/service mix. It does so...
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Ghana: What Economic Challenges?
Ghana stands apart from other African economies thanks to its consolidated democratic achievements as well as the pace of its economic growth since the early 2000s. The start of oil production in the...
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Energy Transition - 2019-2022 Strategy
The Energy Transition (ET) is now underway in developing and developed countries alike. Driven mainly by technological advances, it presents an economic, social and environmental opportunity to achiev...
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Baking for a better future
The Boulangerie Française offers trainings in bakery jobs, which facilitates the integration of disadvantaged young people into the labour market and improves their living conditions. Meeting with May...
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Research, Innovation & Knowledge - 2019-2022 Strategy
Strengthening research efforts and promoting innovation are among the cross-cutting focus areas of the French development and international solidarity policy. Echoing this ambition, the AFD Group is s...
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Kit Sport and Development: A Methodological Approach
For over 25 years, a number of actors (States, civil society, private sector, etc.) have been making sport work for development. Since 2015, physical activity has been mentioned as a major vehicle for...
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Reviving agricultural advisory and extension services in sub-Saharan Africa
The Inter-réseaux Développement rural – IRAM – Ambre conseil/CERFRANCE – CIRAD group was mobilised by the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, or “AFD”) in order to spark disc...
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