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Mobilization and impact at scale – High-Level Event in Paris on Mainstreaming Scaling
Impact at scale: Meet on June 20, 2025
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The Visible Hand: Development banks in Transition
The 14th AFD International Research Conference on Development, The Visible Hand: Development Banks in Transition has taken place in the framework of the Finance in Common Summit, the first global meet...
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EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities Final Conference
What do we know about socio-economic inequalities in emerging and developing countries? How are they changing? What are the causes and consequences ? How can they be reduced? How can they be taken int...
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Summer school “Innovations for Development"
From July 5 to 12, as part of the Summer School "Innovations for Development", J-PAL Europe and the French Development Agency, in collaboration with the Fund for Innovation in Development (FID), are p...
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IUCN World Conservation Congress: The Program
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is organizing its World Conservation Congress with France from 3 to 11 September 2021 in Marseille. Established in 1948, IUCN is composed of s...
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2021 Finance in Common Summit: The Program
Building upon the positive results of the first edition of the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), Public Development Banks will convene for a second time to reiterate and reinforce their commitments in...
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AFD Group's 80th Anniversary Program
To mark AFD's 80th anniversary, a special event will be broadcast live online on December 2. It promises to be a kind of polyphonic concert, where words, emotions and points of view from all over the...
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Investing Together, for a New Alliance Between Africa and Europe
In connection with the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, AFD Group is organizing a high-profile event to promote a new Euro-African alliance for sustainable investment to be held...
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Sustainable Finance in the Indopacific
The ongoing Indo-French dialogue highlights a shared vision for a strengthened multilateral partnership for sustainable development in the Indo-Pacific region. In this context, AFD and the Exim Bank o...
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New York Climate Week: AFD joins GeCCo to transform access to electric cooking
Agence française de développement (AFD) announced at the New York Climate Week its membership in the Global eCooking Coalition (GeCCo), an international alliance launched at COP28 to make electric coo...
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80 years of the UN: AFD and the 'discreet certainty' of our partnership
Founded in 1945, four years after Agence Française de Développement (AFD), then known as the "Caisse Centrale de la France Libre", the United Nations shares with AFD a rich history in support of susta...
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Improving healthcare systems, an interview with Christophe Paquet
A lack of medicine, water and electricity; shortages of doctors; prohibitive costs: they all stand in the way of providing good quality healthcare to all. The World Health Organization estimates that...
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Madagascar: combating sex tourism
In Madagascar, thousands of young people are driven to engage in prostitution as a means of survival. The country remains vulnerable to child sex tourism, an issue that the Government of Madagascar an...
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5 challenges for employment in developing countries
Between mass unemployment, poor working conditions, wage gaps, discrimination and other concerns, finding a job can be a challenge, and having one does not guarantee decent living conditions, particul...
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A ray of hope for street children in the Philippines
In Manila, between 250,000 and 1 million children live in the streets, left to fend for themselves. To offer them hope for a better future and improve their living conditions, four NGOs are mobilizing...
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5 lesser-known benefits of sport
Sport is good for our health, but not only! It is also a tremendous tool for peace, social inclusion and gender equality. Here's an overview.
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These 12 Indian cities are the future of sustainable urban development
In 2018, the Government of India, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) launched the City Investments To Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) program, which invited I...
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The sustainable valuation of the Congo Basin forests: A real possibility?
Spanning some 268 million hectares across Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea, the forests of the Co...
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Reducing Inequalities: Insights from the EU-AFD Research Facility
In this summary, find more information about the lessons learned, tools, and partnerships developed within the framework of the EU-AFD Facility for Research on Inequalities between 2020 and 2025.
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Beyond Redistribution: Market Power, Firm Structure, and the South African Labour Market
This paper examines how firm structure and market power shape inequality in South Africa. Moving beyond a narrow focus on fiscal redistribution, it introduces a pre-distribution lens that highlights t...
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