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African Economies in 2023
This fourth edition of “African Economies,” has been produced by AFD in an age of consequences, an age experiencing a combination of protracted crises whose effects are immediate, an age with both cli...
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AFD and Agriculture in Angola
Angola’s agricultural potential is considered to be the greatest in Southern Africa, thanks to considerable water resources, a favorable climate and a large amount of available arable land. Neverthele...
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Unbundling Eskom: How would a new distribution system impact on energy poverty
South Africa’s electricity generation and transmission are currently dominated by the country’s vertical monopoly power utility, Eskom. Distribution is shared between 165 licenced municipalities and E...
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AFD Group and Angola
In Angola, AFD Group supports the sustainable development priorities of its local partners, by financing improved access to water and electricity for all. AFD also supports economic and financial tran...
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AFD Group and the Gambia
The Republic of the Gambia is the smallest country of continental Africa and one of the priority countries for French development assistance. The country carries a heavy public debt as well as many ch...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2023 #1
The dual shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has pushed up inflation to an extent not seen in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock has put an en...
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AFD and Costa Rica
A country with great ecological wealth, Costa Rica stands out for its continuous commitment to the conservation of the environment and biodiversity since the 1980s. AFD has been assisting the count...
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Peru
Peru has one of the best performing economies in South America. However, the country faces record urban growth and high vulnerability to climate change. Since 2014, AFD has been assisting it in achiev...
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Development finance fragmentation and diversification: the case of China, India and Türkiye
From 2010 to 2019, the international community committed USD 1,700 billion in loans for developing countries. While multila-teral development banks continued to provide the bulk of financings (60% of...
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Replay: MacroDev Online Webinar on the Commodity Prices Boom
Along this webinar at the occasion of the release of the MacroDev-Semestrial Panorama 2022 #2, AFD economists provided analysis in a thematic note devoted to commodities. Several country cases illustr...
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2022 Activity and Corporate Social Responsibility Report
AFD Group releases its Activity and Social Responsibility Report (RARES), which reports on its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2022 edition of the...
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The Proof is in the Pudding. Revealing the SDGs with Artificial Intelligence
The use of frontier technologies in the field of sustainability is likely to accompany its visibility, and the quality of information available to decision makers. This paper explores the possibility...
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Greening China’s investments in Africa: issues and challenges
The 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which was held in Dakar in November 2021, strengthened the pillars of a “new era” of China-Africa cooperation in various fields, including energy, wh...
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2021 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
In 2020, in order to ensure the consistency of AFD Group's 100% Paris Agreement commitments and 100% Social Link commitments with its presence on the markets, AFD created a bond framework aligned with...
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Designing the Collective Intelligence Commons
The digital commons – including thousands of standards and tools for open hardware, data, software and content – play a vital role in the development of many of the world’s most impactful collective i...
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Official Development Assistance at the Age of Consequences
Official Development Assistance (ODA) was introduced in the 1960s as a temporary instrument to respond to a phase in world history involving decolonization, the Cold War, industrialization and flagran...
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Effect of typhoons on economic activities in Vietnam: Evidence using satellite imagery
This paper investigates the effect of typhoons on economic activities in Vietnam. During the period covered by our analysis, 1992-2013, we observed 63 typhoons affecting different locations of the cou...
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Employment in a zero net emissions future in Costa Rica: Renewable energy to enable widespread benefits for th...
In pursuit of a "3D" economy (decentralized, digitized and decarbonized), Costa Rica is encouraging transformations to work towards the year 2050 through its National Decarbonization Plan&nb...
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AFD's Financing for Civil Society Organizations
Is your Civil Society Organization (CSO) seeking financing for an international solidarity project or does it want to implement an AFD project? AFD, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) a...
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Improving the daily lives of Namibians with microfinance
In Namibia, in collaboration with the local post office NamPost and its microfinance subsidiary Postfin, the Agence française de développement supports retirees’ access to financial services, while pr...
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