Publications and media
The challenges of India‘s economic policy
Over the 1990s and 2000s, India experienced a remarkable acceleration in its rate of economic growth comparable in the mid-2000s to that of its neighbour China. This economic “take-off”, which was par...
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Knowledge Production at AFD - Issues and Orientations
AFD has a dual mandate to finance sustainable development and produce knowledge. The second aspect of this mandate aims to enhance strategies and provide concrete responses to the challenges of p...
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Evaluation Summary - Northwest irrigation sector project, Cambodia
In Cambodia, for the “Agricultural water resources” sector, Northwest irrigation sector project was subject to an evaluation in September 2014. The Northwest region of Cambodia includes a wide rura...
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The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des expert...
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Relational Capability Index 2.0
Relational Capabilities, as introduced by Giraud et al. (2013) aims to introduce social capital and social inclusion in the capabilities paradigm. This paper presents RCI 2.0, an alternative version o...
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Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to t...
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Evaluation Summary - Yichang small hydraulic project, China
In China, for the “Energy” sector, the Yichang small hydraulic project was subject to an evaluation in August 2014. The project was perfectly aligned with the strong Chinese focus on renewable energy...
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The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of...
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Development Impact Evaluations - State of Play and New Challenges
Development impact evaluations, and randomised control trials (RCTs) in particular, have boomed since the early 2000s albeit with large differences in growth patterns from one donor to the next. These...
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Ghana: The challenges of growth faced with increasing imbalances
Ghana, West Africa’s second largest economy, has been particularly adept over the last decade at consolidating its democracy and bolstering its growth regime. Despite the financial crisis, the country...
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
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Securing pastoral mobility in Sahel
Pastoralism has long been regarded as archaic, but recent research shows that pastoral systems can effectively exploit the characteristic instability of dryland ecosystems and make productive use of t...
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Evaluation Summary - Siem Reap/Angkor Urban development project, Cambodia
In Cambodia, the Siem Reap/Angkor urban development project was subject to an evaluation in May 2014. Siem Reap is the second economic center of Cambodia and has to cope with increasing tourist pre...
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The agrarian question in South Africa
The end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election as President of the Republic turned a page in the history of South Africa. In 1994, some 60,000 (white) farmers held around 87 million hectares of la...
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Development Challenges in Latin America
Despite remarkable economic dynamism and poverty reduction over the past decade, Latin America must still overcome many socioeconomic challenges to achieve sustainable development. Against a backdrop...
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Institutional Pathways for Local Climate Adaptation: A Comparison of Three South African Municipalities
Cette recherche porte sur les facteurs politiques, institutionnels et sociaux à l'origine de l'initiation de l'adaptation climatique à Cape Town, Durban et Theewaterskloof, localement considérées comm...
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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to...
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Family Farming Around the World: Definitions, contributions and public policies
Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions....
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Tourism in Africa : Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
This report is the first to examine tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures enabling the sector s economic and development power....
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Refining AFD’s Interventions in the Palestinian Territories - Increasing Resilience in Area C
Zone C in the West Bank is a territory rich in natural resources and with great potential for economic development. It is also the only part of the West Bank over which the Palestinian Authority has n...
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