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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...
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How Can We Capitalize on the Demographic Dividend? Demographics at the Heart of Development Pathways
In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market bet...
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Managing food price instability in developing countries - A critical analysis of strategies and instruments
Based on a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, this book identifies and analyzes four "pure" strategies that can be employed to manage food price instability. It is inten...
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Family Farming Around the World: Definitions, contributions and public policies
Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions....
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Rainfed Food Crops in West and Central Africa: Points for Analysis and Proposals for Action
The rise in world agricultural prices in 2008 revealed the fragility of food security in many developing countries. Poor populations in sub-Saharan Africa are the biggest victims of this fragility. Ra...
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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...
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Food Reserves and Regulating Market Volatility in Africa
The aim of this study is to examine public food storage systems in developing countries, particularly Africa. In which context is it pertinent to set up one type of stock over another? What conditions...
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Economic Partnership Agreements and Regional Trade Flow Dynamics: The ECOWAS Case
The Cotonou Agreement, signed in June 2000, has as its central objective "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty consistent with the objectives of sustainable development and the gradual integrat...
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Beyond the fragile state: Taking action to assist fragile actors and societies
The concept of the "fragile state" came rapidly to the fore in 2004 in the international policy debate about official development assistance (ODA). The month of January 2005 saw not only an important...
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Local taxation: an economy-based guide
The present paper is an extension of the research work undertaken by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the field of local taxation. The study by Dafflon et al. (2008), published in the se...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector
The AFD, with support from the international network of experts, GEFOP, proposes to conduct an in-depth study on the conditions and forms of investment in training in the informal sector. (...)
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Cameroon Field Survey
Cameroon was originally chosen as one of the five sample countries for the field survey on vocational training in the informal sector because it stands out among the subSaharan African countries. (......
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Angola Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Accompanying Measures Are Needed
The Cotonou agreements announce the end of preferential agreements by envisaging a renewed partnership, based on reciprocity, between the European Union and six regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Pa...
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A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"
The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first ve...
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AFD-funded Resident Technical Assistance
Since the CICID (Inter-ministerial Committee for International Co-operation and Development) meeting in 2005, sectoral capacity-building now falls under AFD’s responsibility/remit. At the same time, t...
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Contract Farming in Developing Countries - A Review -
Contract farming can be defined as a firm providing farmers with particular “input” — such as seed, fertilizer, credit, extension — in exchange for exclusive purchasing rights over a specified crop. T...
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Toward a Joint Management of Transboundary Aquifer Systems
Aquifer systems, which can contain a major part of the accessible water resources of a country, are often imperfectly known. However, and much more commonly than transboundary rivers, many aquifers ar...
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Methods for the Economic Valuation of Urban Heritage: A Sustainability-based Approach
Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such patrimony is general...
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Africa's Infrastructure : A Time for Transformation
This study is part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD will provide a baseline aga...
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