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Transport Infrastructure and the Spatial Evolution of the Productive Structure in Brazil
This paper analyzes the impact of large scale investments on transport infrastructure on the spatial evolution of the productive structure in Brazil, in particular the industry/service mix. It does so...
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Kochi Metro: Enhancing mobility and empowering women
AFD has been working with local authorities and the Indian government to support the Kochi Metro project since February 2014. When the metro was first inaugurated, the curious public would come to vis...
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour fo...
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AFD and Ghana
Between 2008 and 2017, AFD invested more than 700 million euros in Ghana. These are funds dedicated for the promotion of high developmental impact projects: improvement of living conditions, reduction...
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Economic impacts of a glacial period: a thought experiment
Increased knowledge about anthropogenic climate change has raised growing concerns about its potential catastrophic impacts on both ecosystems and human societies. Yet, several studies on damages indu...
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Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Technical Efficiency in Vietnamese Agriculture
The aim of this study is to examine farm household-level impacts of weather extreme events on Vietnamese rice technical efficiency. Vietnam is considered among the most vulnerable countries to climate...
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Non-linear Impacts of Climate Change on Income and Inequality in Vietnam
This paper measures the marginal impact of climate variability on Vietnamese households’ income. We combine survey data from the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) database with daily c...
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Evaluation of the AFD “Protected Area” conservation and development intervention contributions (2000-2017). Sy...
Since 2000, the AFD and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) have committed financial agreements in direct support to the establishment and management of protected areas (PA). One of the obje...
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Vulnerabilities to crises and resilience - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD’s motto, « A word in common », illustrates the interdependence of women and men who share the same space and destiny. Crises – whether relating to security, politics, health, food, economics, soci...
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DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health
Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the libera...
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Economic and political stakes of the middle income group expansion in Vietnam
Middle class expansion in formerly poor countries has become the focus point of business groups, development banks and national governments over the latter decade. By naturalizing an income group into...
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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System
For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...
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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated wh...
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Evaluating 15 Years of Support for Development
This document is a summary of the final report of the external evaluation of 15 years of AFD and FFEM interventions related to “the development of rural territories or landscapes”3 in sub-Saharan Afri...
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Climate - 2018 Activity Report
The effects of climate disturbances are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperature by...
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Manufacturing Equality in Türkiye
A dairy product company near Istanbul has deicded to hire more women and organize awareness-raising workshops for staff to raise awareness around gender stereotypes. This pilot project, supported by A...
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Commons: Towards a New Narrative on Development Policies and Practices?
Narratives feed into development policies. They are the outcome of complex interactions between political and economic contexts as well as scientific findings and practices. Narratives are a way to bu...
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Education and migration: insights for policymakers
Connections between migration and education are numerous, both at the macro and micro level. Recognizing this implies that educational policy as well as migration policy may generate spill-over effect...
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AFD and Myanmar
A large, predominantly rural territory rich in natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoys a strategic geographical position between the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. Since 201...
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AFD and Vietnam
AFD supports in Vietnam the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the area of energy transition, resilience of cities and territories, and youth. It offers a wide range of financial instruments...
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Evaluation Summary - Rural infrastructure development and tourism project in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
In the Lao Cai Province of Vietnam, the rural infrastructure development and tourism project was subject to an evaluation in December 2018. Northern Vietnam province Lao Cai is among the poorest ar...
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