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GEMMES Morocco: analyzing the impacts of different climate scenarios on Moroccan agriculture
Due to climate change, the agricultural sector in Morocco is increasingly facing rising temperatures and dwindling water resources. As part of a long-standing collaboration with AFD, the GEMMES Morocc...
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ESTEEM – Exposure to Structural Transition in an Ecological-Economic Model
How can we measure the macroeconomic risks that developing countries may encounter during their low-carbon transition? Developed by AFD, the ESTEEM model (Exposure to Structural Transition in an Ecolo...
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GEMMES Tunisia: Investigating the impact of hydric stress on agriculture, water cycle and the economy
The GEMMES Tunisia project examined the impact of climate change on Tunisian agriculture in particular, and the macroeconomic impact of these changes in general, as well as the benefits of various ada...
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Inequalities, social mobility and perceptions in Mexico
Latin America is one of the regions with the highest economic inequality in the world. Moreover, Mexico shows one of the highest levels of such kind of inequality within the region. Even public offici...
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Cash transfers and economic recovery: The effect of South Africa’s Covid-19 grant on productive economic activ...
The fear that cash transfer programs (or social grants) can discourage labor market participation is common among policymakers locally and around the world, including in South Africa. To refute or con...
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Multidimensional Diagnostic on Inequalities in Colombia
This research project conducted by the Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in close collaboration with DANE and DNP, and in partnership with Fedesarrollo, conducted a comprehensi...
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Analysis of Colombia’s fiscal policy and public spending impact on inequalities
The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in partnership with Fedesarrollo and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Finances implemented the methodology of the Commitment to...
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The National Care System and inequalities in Mexico
The Extension of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in partnership with CEEY will design proposals for the design of care systems at level of federal states and of municipalities, which will...
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Public policies, private higher education development and inequalities
Education plays a crucial role in both the production of and the fight against inequalities, within a single country and between different countries. The rapid increase in the private higher-education...
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Inequalities in access to basic services and impact of public policies in Côte d'Ivoire
While the Ivorian economy is experiencing a definite upturn, there is hardly any decline in the level of poverty and inequalities. This research program has been included in the Strategic Dialog Memor...
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The distributional impact of social protection: short- and longer-run inequalities in Ethiopia, India and Peru
The project aims to establish the causal impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in India, Ethiopia and Peru on both the level of economic resources and a number of dimensions of inequal...
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Assessing equity in health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa - Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia
This research project examines the equity benefit of total health spending with particular focus on the recent Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, by looking at the distribu...
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Madagascar
A continent-island rich in unique biodiversity and potential, Madagascar is today one of the poorest countries in the world. Since 1952, AFD has been committed to supporting sustainable development th...
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Inequalities diagnostic and fiscal incidence study in Kenya
Although substantial progress has been made in the fight against poverty, disease, and illiteracy since independence in Kenya, a remaining challenge is linked to inequality. An understanding of inequa...
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The dynamics and interactions of income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Ghana
Led by the University of Ghana, this research project focuses on inequalities in Ghana, where they remain at important levels although this country has experienced rapid economic growth and significan...
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Climate variability and inequalities in Indonesia and in Vietnam
Climate change and variability in South East Asia (SEA) has been remarkable in the past 20 years. The peculiarity of the economy and societal structure of SEA has an impact on how these effects will b...
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Inequalities and environmental changes in the Lower Mekong River Basin
This project proposes a systematic analysis of the inequality-environmental change nexus in the Lower Mekong River Basin Region. It aims at building scientific base for policy action as well as identi...
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Fiscal Incidence Analysis
The CEQ Assessment is a tool that analyzes the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty, allowing governments to assess the redistributive and poverty-reduction impact of their...
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Realizing the potential of public development banks for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
There are more than 500 Public Development Banks (PDBs) and Development Financing Institutions around the world. Spread over all continents, with varying sizes, geographies and areas of intervention,...
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Analysis of the distributional impact of development cooperation projects
It is critical to assess how, and the extent to which, projects and programmes supported by development agencies contribute to the goal of reducing within country inequalities. A methodology (Morabito...
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