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Understanding the impact of human capital on the development of secondary cities in Côte d'Ivoire
The integration of young people into the labour market is a challenge for Côte d'Ivoire, in a context of strong population growth. AFD is working with the Centre de recherche microéconomique du dévelo...
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GEMMES Brazil: A tool to test public policies for the green transition
Brazil faces significant challenges in its low-carbon transition, including maintaining global competitiveness and avoiding macroeconomic imbalances. To address these, in partnership with the Ministry...
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PAIRES – AFD-IRD Partnership to conduct impact assessments by mobilizing research from the Global South
PAIRES is a partnership between AFD and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) that funds a series of impact assessments of development interventions supported by AFD...
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Macroeconomic country assessment − Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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ENSLAC Project – Enabling Nature-based solutions Scale-up in Latin American Cities
As part of the ENSLAC project, AFD is working with Yes Innovation and its partners to study and identify replicability levers for nature-based solutions in three South American countries – Ecuador, Co...
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CEROM partnership: Producing statistics to analyze the economic situation of Overseas France
The CEROM (Comptes économiques rapides pour l'Outre-mer - Fast Economic Accounts for Overseas France) partnership brings together complementary expertise from the French National Institute of Statisti...
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Defining standards of good ecological condition for the ESGAP framework
This research partnership with EcoAct has allowed to enrich the notion of "standard of good ecological condition", which is central to ESGAP (Environmental Sustainability Gap), a methodology supported...
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Macroeconomic country-assessment – Mexico
Mexico is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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Macroeconomic country assessment – Brazil
Brazil is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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Macroeconomic country assessment − Cambodia
Cambodia is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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Developing a strategic framework for nature-based solutions in urban areas
As part of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD is collaborating with the World Resources Institute (WRI) to develop a strategic framework for identifying and deploying nature-based solutions (NBS) i...
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Studying wildlife economy to mainstream biodiversity into agricultural policies in South Africa and Kenya
The ECOPRONAT programme explores the levers for mainstreaming biodiversity into different economic sectors. As part of this research programme, AFD is working with the South African National Biodivers...
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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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Greening urban food systems through nature-based solutions in Bengaluru
As part of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD is working with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) to analyse the links between urban agriculture, nature-based solutions (NBS) and city...
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Measuring environmental sustainability in Colombia and South Africa: application of the ESGAP framework
Within the framework of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD supports the development of methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability at the level of a territory - and more particularly i...
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Where does AFD's money come from, and where does it go?
For more than 80 years, the Agence Française de Développement has contributed to implementing France's policy on development, sustainable investment and international solidarity. Through its public se...
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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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AFD Group brings together three major emerging economies to accelerate the energy transition
Ten years to the day after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Agence française de développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) welcomed to Paris, from 8 to 12 December 2025, delegations from...
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Evaluating the Performance of Selected Reanalysis Datasets over Vietnam
Vietnam, a country highly exposed to extreme weather events, still struggles to fill in significant gaps in its historical meteorological records, limiting a comprehensive understanding of past climat...
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