Publications and media
Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing wor...
Published on
The Quality of Growth: Accounting for Sustainability
This paper has three purposes. First, it follows the UN conceptual and measurement approach in providing a welfare theoretic framework for sustainability. The intergenerational conditions for sustaina...
Published on
Evaluation Summary - Small towns water supply and sanitation project (STWSSP), Tanzania
In Tanzania, the Small towns water supply and sanitation project (STWSSP) was subject to an evaluation in December 2014. The project was implemented to help fulfill the need for further decentraliz...
Published on
Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success
For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...
Published on
Integrating Marginalized Neighborhoods into Cities: Tomorrow‘s Challenge
Urban growth is spreading mainly in the cities of the South, and the populations of marginalized neighborhoods are expected to double and reach 2 billion in 2030. It is unrealistic to imagine a future...
Published on
Quality Signaling through Certification in Developing Countries
This paper studies how the signaling of the credence attributes of consumer goods distorts their market equilibrium in developing countries. Costs of certification, sunk in order to achieve credibilit...
Published on
Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely...
Published on
Evaluation Summary - NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project, Namibia
In Namibia, the NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project was subject to an evaluation in October 2014. To meet its electricity needs, Namibia relies on imports from thermal power stations i...
Published on
Panorama of the Urban and Municipal Sector in India
La transition urbaine de l'Inde aura des impacts majeurs ces vingt prochaines années. En comparaison à la moyenne mondiale (50 %), le taux d'urbanisation du pays, situé juste au-dessus de 30 %, est en...
Published on
Evaluation Summary - Northwest irrigation sector project, Cambodia
In Cambodia, for the “Agricultural water resources” sector, Northwest irrigation sector project was subject to an evaluation in September 2014. The Northwest region of Cambodia includes a wide rura...
Published on
Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to t...
Published on
The challenges of India‘s economic policy
Over the 1990s and 2000s, India experienced a remarkable acceleration in its rate of economic growth comparable in the mid-2000s to that of its neighbour China. This economic “take-off”, which was par...
Published on
Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in a...
Published on
The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des expert...
Published on
Knowledge Production at AFD - Issues and Orientations
AFD has a dual mandate to finance sustainable development and produce knowledge. The second aspect of this mandate aims to enhance strategies and provide concrete responses to the challenges of povert...
Published on
Relational Capability Index 2.0
Relational Capabilities, as introduced by Giraud et al. (2013) aims to introduce social capital and social inclusion in the capabilities paradigm. This paper presents RCI 2.0, an alternative version o...
Published on
Evaluation Summary - Yichang small hydraulic project, China
In China, for the “Energy” sector, the Yichang small hydraulic project was subject to an evaluation in August 2014. The project was perfectly aligned with the strong Chinese focus on renewable energy...
Published on
The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of...
Published on
Development Impact Evaluations - State of Play and New Challenges
Development impact evaluations, and randomised control trials (RCTs) in particular, have boomed since the early 2000s albeit with large differences in growth patterns from one donor to the next. These...
Published on
Ghana: The challenges of growth faced with increasing imbalances
Ghana, West Africa’s second largest economy, has been particularly adept over the last decade at consolidating its democracy and bolstering its growth regime. Despite the financial crisis, the country...
Published on
Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
Published on
