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The choice of arabo-islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative study
While it is a central issue for most sub-Saharan African countries, quantification and qualification of the Arabo-Islamic education choice appear particularly poorly documented. After an inventory of...
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High School Track Choice and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico
We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The...
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Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school...
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Does one size fit all? The impact of cognitive skills on economic growth
This paper tests for heterogeneous effects of cognitive skills on economic growth across countries. Using a new extended dataset on cognitive skills and controlling for potential endogeneity, we find...
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Macroeconomic Crisis, Primary Education and Aid Effectiveness
While the relationship between macroeconomic crisis, human capital investment and international aid is intensively discussed by the international community, rigorous macroeconomic evidence is still mi...
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Redistributive Programs’ Implementation: Do Political Incentives Matter ?
Despite innovative safeguards to reduce political interference in the nowadays famous Mexican conditional cash transfer, local politicians received important electoral rewards from its implementation....
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Explaining the Development of Private Education: the Effect of Public Expenditure on Education
There is considerable cross-country variability in the distribution of pupils between public and private education. Whereas in some countries most children attend private schools, other countries have...
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Evaluation of the « Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique » program: Methodological Aspects and Interim Asses...
This eight-country evaluation seeks to measure how the ELAN Program methods of written language acquisition have an impact, during the first two years of primary school (Grade 1 and Grade 2), on oral...
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Teacher training based on the results of research on their actual practices in the context of Sub-Saharan Afri...
The OPERA project (Observation des pratiques enseignantes dans leur rapport avec les apprentissages des élèves / Diagnosis of Teacher Practices in Relation with Learning) started on the basis of obser...
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Assisting Developing Countries in Taxation after the OECD’s BEPS Reports: A Suggested Approach for the Interna...
This paper explores how the international donor community might most productively offer technical assistance to developing countries in the area of taxation, in light of the recently completed study o...
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Flood risk and cities in developing countries
The risk of flooding is a natural hazard affecting the most people worldwide. However, it is more of a risk in terms of material damage than a lethal risk for the affected population. Integrated flood...
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Intervention framework Nigeria 2014-2016
Intervention framework Nigeria 2014-2016
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AFD Group’s policy to prevent and combat Prohibited practices (2020)
The purpose of this document is to outline the policy of Agence Française de Développement and its subsidiaries to prevent, detect and combat any act of corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist...
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State and Local Government Climate Initiatives
This study conducted by AFD, in partnership with I4CE, proposes an analysis of the commitment by the States of 51 developing and emerging countries to fostering climate policies implemented by their l...
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Climate & Development - 2017-2022 Strategy
AFD was one of the first international donors to integrate the fight against climate change into its practices. This approach, initiated more than a decade ago, is based both on the principle that the...
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The IDFC Green Finance Mapping Report for 2015-2016
The IDFC, the International Development Finance Club, formed in 2011 brings together 23 leading international, national and sub regional development banks from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and So...
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An Input-Output Analysis: What Would a Low-Carbon Economy for Brazil Mean?
Mixing economic growth with low-carbon objectives entails multidimensional challenges among which a shift in employment and a rapid transformation of infrastructure are involved. The aim of this paper...
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Improving European coordination in fragile states - Main report
This document is the main report of a study carried out by the Centre for EU Studies (CEUS), Ghent University, and commissioned by the Practitioners’ Network for European development cooperation in 20...
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Urban waste: between decentralised management and commons
Non-centralised waste management procedures are developing in the Southern countries: community pre-collection, recycling and the micro-local circular economy.
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AFD Group Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct
Corruption, in all its forms, is a major obstacle to development. In developing countries, perhaps even more than in developed countries, it has detrimental effects. It deprives the poorest populat...
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