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AFD and Southern Africa
The Johannesburg-based regional office for Southern Africa covers AFD’s activities in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. AFD’s par...
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Southern Africa: Energy transition
Southern Africa has access to a wealth of primary renewable energy sources, with enough geothermal, hydro, wind and solar resources to provide gigawatts of power. However, the adoption of low-carbon t...
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Southern Africa: Biodiversity
Southern Africa has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity. Unfortunately, the capacity of nature to maintain this biological wealth is rapidly...
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Southern Africa: Infrastructure
Southern Africa has some of the most developed infrastructure in the continent. However, the region still faces numerous challenges, such as insufficient energy supply, highly priced and unpredictable...
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Southern Africa: Research and development
Research is a fundamental first step toward designing successful development projects, as it gives important insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental context in which projects wil...
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Southern Africa: Social inclusion
Access to education, healthcare, decent housing and employment are fundamental to human dignity, and are key to achieve poverty eradication. In Southern Africa, although poverty rates fell by almost h...
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AFD and Mozambique
Present in the country since 1981, AFD is a long-term partner of Mozambique. For nearly 40 years, AFD has continuously supported the country in its efforts to improve basic infrastructure, preserve bi...
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Pure water in Gaza
The North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment (NGEST) is now complete after 13 years of work. This wastewater treatment facility in the northern part of Gaza (Beit Lahia), essential for the population, wa...
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Anne Odic : Cities have a role to play in the fight against the climate change
Cities have an absolutely essential role to play in the fight against climate change. Anne Odic, Head of cities division at AFD explains it in a few minutes.
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AFD and Laos
Laos is a mountainous and landlocked country but it does not lack assets. For some fifteen years, the country’s economic activity has been very strong, driven by an economic model based mainly on the...
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AFD and Cameroon
Located at the crossroads of West and Central Africa, Cameroon has historically been one of AFD Group’s main countries of intervention. Most recently, AFD has supported Cameroon through major infrastr...
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AFD Group and Armenia
Present in Armenia since 2013, AFD Group finances and accelerates the country’s transitions toward a fairer and more sustainable future. It supports projects addressing climate change and social inequ...
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AFD and Nigeria
AFD began its activities in Nigeria 12 years ago and is now one of the country’s rightful partners. Its unique position as a bilateral lender for varied financing solutions enables it to contribute no...
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One Planet Summit: what results?
Nine months after the first summit in Paris, members of the One Planet coalition are meeting again this Wednesday, September 26 in New York to take stock of the progress of their commitments. The oppo...
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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before enteri...
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Indonesia - 2022-2026 Strategy
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago and the leading power in Southeast Asia. Over the period 2022–2026, the overarching goal of AFD Group’s activity in Indonesia will be to accompany the coun...
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AFD group and the Palestinian Territories
Present since 1999 in the Palestinian Territories where it has already invested more than 500 million euros, AFD group continues, as part of its country strategy 2021-2025, to contribute to the implem...
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Debt and damages: what are the chances of staying under the 2°C warming threshold?
In a stock-flow consistent macrodynamic model featuring two crucial endogenous destabilizing channels, namely debt accumulation and climate change, we perform a sensitivity analysis on four fundamenta...
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Adapt'Action: Tackling Climate Change Together
More than 3 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2022). Yet, adapting to the impacts of climate change remains a complex process: multiple sectors as wel...
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Testing Goodwin with a Stochastic Differential Approach – The United States (1948-2017)
This paper follows Harvie (2000)’s research program in testing both Goodwin (1967)’s predator-prey model and the extension proposed by van der Ploeg (1985). The author’s aim is to provide a guideline...
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