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Public debt in developping countries with Maxime Terrieux
Since the late 1990s, several developing countries have benefited from public debt relief. Yet by early 2020, half of the poor countries had reached a high risk or even already a situation of public d...
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Encouraging green finance: AFD's offer to public banks
AFD is the first agency to be 100% in line with the Paris Agreement and to make strong commitments on climate financing by supporting the transformation of financial actors' practices and promoting su...
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Support to civil society organizations - 2019 Activity report
AFD has been supporting the initiatives of French civil society organizations (CSOs) and their partners in the Global South for 10 years, with financing delegated by the Ministry for Europe and Foreig...
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Who bears the burden of climate variability? A comparative analysis of the impact of weather conditions on ine...
Is climate variability regressive? One argument could be as follows: People living in areas with high risk of climate hazards usually correspond to the most disadvantaged populations. Due to existing...
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Exploring the dynamics of micro- level consumption inequality in Ghana
Despite the country’s recent impressive growth record, inequality remains a pressing concern in Ghana as the benefits of higher incomes are not being evenly distributed. Existing micro-level studies o...
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How to Finance the Protection of Biodiversity?
About $143 billion will be invested in the protection of biodiversity in 2020. However, three times as much is required to halt the destruction of ecosystems, and preserve the benefits and services th...
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Social Protection: The Impact on Inequality in Ethiopia, India, and Peru
Three large-scale social protection schemes - the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos condi...
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Social Protection: The Impact on Multidimensional Poverty in Ethiopia, India, and Peru
Three large-scale social protection schemes - the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos condi...
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Social Protection: Impact on household resource allocation and Child Undernutrition
Three large-scale social protection schemes – the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos conditional cash tra...
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Financing Development: A Chinese Path?
Through the financing of major infrastructure projects, China has become a key player in development finance. How is Chinese aid distributed and by what means and modalities? Which Chinese institution...
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Social cohesion in times of forced displacement: the case of young people in Jordan
Countries hosting large numbers of refugees often face immense challenges in providing sufficient economic opportunities, and access to basic services. Competition over limited resources can lead to t...
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Why and How Should Development Banks Take Physical Climate Risks into Account?
The physical risks resulting from climate change are those related to the direct impact of both more extreme and frequent weather or climate events and gradual changes in climate patterns. As far as b...
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Dr. Thu Zar Myint Than and the knowledge for better disease control in Myanmar
The ECOMORE II project, coordinated by the Institut Pasteur and funded by the AFD, is investigating changes in the environment and in the human activities behind the emergence of infectious diseases i...
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Ko Naing Oo and a life in harmony with dolphins in Myanmar
The Irrawaddy dolphin has seen its population plummet by half in the last 60 years. This species is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The objective of this project,...
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Ouvea, paradise under threat
Ouvea is listed as World Heritage by UNESCO and is one of the largest Pacific atolls (54 km long, 132 km²). It has a population of 3,400. The island is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards and g...
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Climate - 2019 Activity Report
The effects of climate change are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperatures by the...
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2019 State of Climate Services Report - Speakers' presentations
This 2019 State of Climate Services Report, presented by the World Meteorological Organization focuses on agriculture and food security. It reviews countries’ priorities on climate services for ada...
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AFD and the Philippines
The Philippine archipelago, made up of more than 7,100 islands, faces major challenges of climatic, environmental and social vulnerabilities. AFD’s action in the Philippines focuses on natural risk ma...
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AFD and Indonesia
AFD Group has been working in Indonesia for over fifteen years to promote green and inclusive growth, with the goal of supporting the country’s low-carbon development in the framework of a just and re...
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Inequality and Income Mobility in Egypt
This paper explores trends in wage and income levels and inequality and mobility in Egypt, especially since 2012. Data are from the 1998, 2006, 2012, and 2018 waves of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Sur...
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