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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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The regulation of small scale water providers in Laos
The question of how to oversee initiatives such as regulation of Small-Scale Independent Provider without hampering their innovation potential has been studied by AFD and GRET through a common researc...
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Linking Labour Organisation and Vocational Training in Uganda: lessons for rural poverty reduction
This study examines the conditions for effective skills development to reduce rural poverty in Uganda. It is shown that the capacity of the vocational education and training system, despite its ongoin...
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A Comparative Study of Evaluation Policies and Practices in Development agencies
This study was commissioned to map and compare evaluation practices across development agencies, primarily with a view to stimulate an internal debate within AFD on its evaluation systems during a tim...
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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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Addressing Development Challenges in Emerging Asia: A Strategic Review of the AFD-ADB Partnership
After some seven years of collaboration under the 2003 MoU, AFD and ADB agreed to carry out a strategic review of their partnership. The overall objectives of the review have been threefold: (i) revie...
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Randomized Controlled Evaluation of SKY Health Insurance in Cambodia, Survey ProtocolRandomized Controlled Eva...
This proposal describes an impact evaluation of the SKY Health Insurance Program in Cambodia. The origins of SKY (Sokapheap Krousar Yeung, “Health for Our Families”) lie in a microfinance program laun...
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Assessing the Effects of Health Insurance: The SKY Micro-Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
When people experience a major health shock, their medical expenses typically rise and their contribution to household income and production (cooking, childcare, etc.) declines (Wagstaff and Doorslaer...
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Poverty, Access to Credit and the Determinants of Participation in a New Micro-credit Program in Rural Areas o...
This paper describes the economic living conditions of the population in dispersed rural areas of Morocco and analyses their response to the introduction of a new micro-credit program. The first secti...
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South-South cooperation and new agricultural development aid actors in western and southern Africa - China and...
The aim of this study is to better understand, from the information collected on missions undertaken in Senegal, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, and Brazil, the scope and methods of Chinese and Brazilian co...
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Challenges for African Agriculture
This book focuses squarely on the future of Sub-Saharan African agriculture and agriculture’s role in the subcontinent’s development. It reveals the scope of the demographic, economic, and environment...
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Africa's Demographic Transition : Dividend or Disaster?
This book lays out a range of policy actions that are needed at the various phases of the demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and wha...
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Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands : Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including many poor....
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Mining in Africa : Are Local Communities Better Off?
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on...
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Reaping Richer Returns: Public Spending Priorities for African Agriculture Productivity Growth
Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in the region. How...
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The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa : A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, ...
For the past two decades, experiments in decentralization and federalization have been developing in Africa, Asia, and the formerly communist states of Eastern Europe. Many of the powers previously in...
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Contemporary migration to South Africa - A Regional Development Issue
This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are devoted almost exclusively to bord...
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Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure : The Power and Water Sectors
This book evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans...
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Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing wor...
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Empowering Women - Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
This book looks at the effect of legal and economic rights on women's economic opportunities. It focuses on entrepreneurship because women in Africa are active entrepreneurs, and the links between pro...
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