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Collect More, Spend Better? Enhancing fiscal redistribution in West Africa
The pursuit of Domestic Resources Mobilization (DRM) objectives needs to be in agreement with the other SDGs set by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular the elimination of extrem...
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Meeting the equity challenge in Burkina Faso: regional policies to reduce economic inequalities
In their design and formulation, policy documents are generally limited to the macro level (entire country); they set out regional differences without explicitly highlighting the intraregional mechani...
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Inequalities in Tunisia: what role for inherited human capital and social capital?
Regional inequalities are substantial in Tunisia. In the rural western regions, the poverty and unemployment rates are almost three times those of the more advantaged eastern regions. Several factors...
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Improving access to education in Burkina Faso: a major condition for benefiting from the demographic dividend
The large share of children, teenagers, and young people within the Burkinabe population requires strong actions and considerable investments now to offer this segment of the population life skills (k...
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AFD Group Annual Report 2019-2020
Adapted from the digital Datawall, AFD Group’s Annual Report for 2019-20 is now available in a downloadable PDF, in both French and English. With 14.1 billion euros committed in 2019, AF...
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Earnings inequality over the life-course in South Africa
This paper revisits the measure of inequality introducing a dynamic dimension, which allows analysing inequality over the life course.
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Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa
While the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made everyone feel very vulnerable, the pandemic has made manifest the significant gaps between individuals in terms of exposure and in terms of the ca...
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An Overview of Inequalities in Urban Water Services in Bolivia
Urban drinking water services are a particularly prolific research object to think about inequalities in the city because they are by definition at the interface of economic, social and environmental...
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AFD and India: focus on urban transport
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the state and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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AFD and India: focus on biodiversity
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the State and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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AFD and India: water and sanitation
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the State and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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Climate Variability and Inequality: Comparing the Experiences of Indonesia and Vietnam
Households in Indonesia and Vietnam that are poor, rural, older, headed by women, and/or from ethnic minorities bear the biggest burden of variability in climatic conditions. New research investigate...
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The Impact of Climate Variability on Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia
Households in Indonesia that are rural, older, larger, and/or headed by women experience worsening income, deeper poverty, and social exclusion as a consequence of climate instability. New rese...
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The Impact of Climate Variability on Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam
Climate instability in Vietnam leads to reduced incomes and greater inequality, especially in areas most affected by climatic events related to El Nino, such as the Central Highlands, Southeast and Me...
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The Landscape of Adaptation Aid in SIDS
Small island developing states (SIDS) are recognised as “particularly” vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and accordingly receive relatively high levels of adaptation assistance as a group....
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When governance fails: Institutional asymmetries in water management in the municipality of La Paz
This article reflects on the emergence of asymmetries in the institutionality of the water and sanitation sector, primarily caused by the presence of political, social and economic forces that catalyz...
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Participatory irrigation management: from theory to reality – Insights from the Phước-Hòa irrigation project
PIM (Participatory Irrigation Management) has become one of the cornerstones of irrigation development. Its implementation always involves multilayered interaction between international ideologies, de...
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Handbook on Inequality Measurement for Country Studies
Writing a country level study on inequality can be an intimidating task for researchers and statisticians. How does one begin to conceptualize such a study? What needs to be included? What sorts of an...
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Central banks at the heart of ecological reconstruction
Faced with the pandemic crisis and its economic and financial consequences in the short and medium term, central banks found themselves in the position of guardians of chaos. They thus acted quickly a...
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The allocation of resources of national development banks
Public financial institutions and National Development Banks (NDBs) in particular are well suited to fill financing gaps in un- or under- served markets. By virtue of their developmental mandate, and...
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