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Market income inequality, left-wing political parties, and redistribution in Latin America
The paper uses household-level data from more than 200 household income surveys from 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries to explore the (revised) median voter hypothesis and the political determ...
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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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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...
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The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptab...
Over the past two decades, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown their economies, lifted millions out of poverty, recovered from conflict, and greatly expanded access to education with a boo...
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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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AFD in Laos - 25 Years “In Common”
Laos is a resource-rich country. But these resources are regularly threatened by various factors, such as pollution, overexploitation and tourism. In addition, the management of resources often crysta...
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Diverting Solid Waste
This work takes as its starting point the findings of local authorities in the global South: as and when they are required to shut down old disposal sites and invest in costly sanitary landfills, citi...
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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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Evaluation Summary - Health Sector Support Projects in Chad (PASST 1 and 2)
In Chad, for the health sector, two successive health sector support projects were evaluated in 2019. The methodological approach developed for this evaluation was "change" oriented, putting at the he...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Mobility and transport- Synthesis of the AFD Group sectoral intervention framework
The challenge in the sector: Contribute to the achievement of the SDGs while adhering to low-carbon and resilient development trajectories Mobility is determined by individual choices made by a mul...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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Pakistan - 2018-2022 Strategy
In accordance with its intervention strategy for Asia,15 the Group sets itself three objectives in Pakistan consistent with 100% Paris Agreement commitment to low-carbon and resilient development and...
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Reporting Climate Bond AFD 2018
Climate is central to everything AFD Group does, and in 2018 the Group consolidated this position by adopting a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects its aim to help implement the Paris Agr...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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Evaluation of the Second Objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework (2013–2017)
The Agence française de développement (AFD) has entrusted the evaluation of the second objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework to EY in partnership with Biotope. The Cross-c...
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