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Nigeria: The Restrained Ambitions of Africa‘s Largest Economy
With 180 million inhabitants, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Its economy is also the strongest. Just twice as large as France in size, its people are also very diverse: more than 250...
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Vulnerabilities to climate change in the French overseas territories and small island states
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures the vulnerability of small island territories to the impacts of climate change, whether periodic (cyclones, droughts) or progressive...
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World Development Report - WDR 2015 - Progress and Limits
The innovative World Bank Report Mind, Society, and Behavior (WDR 2015) offers great prospects, focusing on the way in which human beings act according to the meaning they give to situations in which...
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Are the Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa so Dependent on Food Imports?
Prevalent in discussions of food provision issues in Western and Central Africa is the idea that urban centres in Western and Central Africa are dependent on food imports, and that urbanization is acc...
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Sahelian youth: dynamics of exclusion, means of integration
For twenty years now, the Sahel region has been marked by rising insecurity, political crises, and poorly controlled flows of people, arms and illegal goods, with a major risk of States becoming desta...
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Safety Nets in Africa : Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable
The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world‘s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be see...
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Shared Challenges for Development within ASEAN - Applied and Analytical Methods
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD...
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Institutions, Development and Poverty
This paper explores the relationships between institutions, growth and poverty, presenting the multiplicity of the causal links connecting these three terms. There is currently a consensus that instit...
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AFD and its Partners - The Cultural Dimension
A development agency operating in a large number of countries and territories is faced with great cultural diversity. There are, of course, universal or almost universal expectations towards it. They...
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Aid for Trade in Developing Countries : Complex Linkages for Real Effectiveness
Aid for trade is intended to support the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. Although this form of aid is being hailed as a promising new development tool, it lacks the...
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Egyptian Industry since the Early 1970s: A History of Thwarted Development
The political will to promote industry in Egypt has thus been affirmed for many years, under a variety of strategies. To what extent has Egypt’s industrial performance matched the effort invested? Has...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the BENIN Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Ethiopia Field Survey
This report is an integral part of the survey and analysis work launched by the Research Department of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) on training in the informa...
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Thailand: The World‘s Leading Exporter of Natural Rubber Owing to its Smallholders
Thailand is currently the world‘s leading exporter of natural rubber, accounting for 33% of the annual volume traded. In addition to its quantitative performance, the case of Thailand is noteworthy in...
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Is "Good Governance" a Good Development Strategy?
New data, new concepts, new results: This working paper offers tools to rethink the role of "good governance" in development strategies. What is "good governance"? Transparency of public action, con...
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Development, a question of opportunity?
The World Bank‘s World Development Report 2006 published in September 2005 addresses Equity and Development. The report defines equity as respect for equal opportunities combined with the avoidance of...
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The Global Discourse on “Participation” and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection
This paper inquires into the nature of “participation” as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that “participation” is a type of “global discourse”...
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American Philanthropic Foundations: Emerging Actors of Globalization and Pillars of the TransAtlantic Dialog
A recent study by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Agence Française de Développement, undertaken in partnership with the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) of Paris, ill...
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Energy Efficiency Policies in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
Most papers dealing with energy efficiency policies focus on the policies and measures implemented in OECD countries and this may lead one to think that only the “rich” countries are developing effort...
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Development Aid Reforms in the Context of New Public Management
The purpose of this article is to analyse reforms to the international development aid policy based on the concepts of New Public Management. Three principles are particularly discussed: the segmentat...
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