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Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy for AFD-funded Operations
Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy for AFD-funded Operations
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Climate activity of the AFD Group in 2016
Over 3.5 billion euros dedicated to climate: commitments continuously rising
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Indonesia: Reforms to Meet Development Challenges
The Indonesian economy is experiencing structural changes and must deal with new challenges in an uncer¬tain international setting. In the past decade, its industry has undergone reprimarization (focu...
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Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico: an application of the ThreeME model
This document offers an empirical application of the notion of energy transition to the Mexican economy and it takes the next step of simulating medium- and long-term impacts of proposed and future en...
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Networks of stranded assets: A case for a balance sheet approach
Moving to a low-carbon economic system will require several industrial sectors to undertake a deep technological transformation of their production processes, leading some of their physical capital as...
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Kochi Metro Experience
THE KOCHI METRO EXPERIENCE: A valuable contribution to the history of Indian metros
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Global Migration in the 20th and 21st Centuries: the Unstoppable Force of Demography
This paper sheds light on the global migration patterns of the past 40 years, and produces migration projections for the 21st century, for two skill groups, and for all relevant pairs of countries. To...
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Climate: the Financial Challenge
Climate change: a challenge for the financial sector Long seen by the financial sector as a marginal issue driven by a few pioneers, in recent years, climate change has become a central issue for the...
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Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa, it has experienced steady growth for the past 10 years and its poverty rate has significantly decreased. However, the country must create jobs and build...
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Improving European coordination in fragile states -Executive summary
This document is the executive summary of a study carried out by the Centre for EU Studies (CEUS), Ghent University, and commissioned by the Practitioners’ Network for European development cooperation...
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AFD corporate social responsibility 2016
AFD corporate social responsibility 2016
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Linkages between Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores linkages between women’s education and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, using DHS data from about 30 countries. There are three substantive sets of analyses. First, we shed light o...
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Sibling social networks and labor market outcomes in Niger: are there any spillover effects?
In this study, based on the Niger 2012 labor force survey, we assess the importance of the effect of siblings on Niger labor market integration and the potential heterogeneity of this effect. Our main...
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Dualism, Poverty Exits and Growth Accelerations
We propose a simple theoretical model to study the dynamics of an economy in which individuals move out of poverty trap. These dynamics are characterized by growth acceleration and temporarily growing...
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AFD and Pakistan
Present in Pakistan since 2006, AFD offers financing solutions and technical assistance to support the Pakistani government in its development policy. AFD works with government partners and local auth...
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Senegal
As a long-standing partner of Senegal, AFD Group places its full range of financial instruments at the service of local economic and social development actors (including the State, public companies, t...
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How should we evaluate the financial risk associated with Social Impact Bonds?
The Social Impact Bond (SIB) is a new financial product designed to attract private investment in public interest projects of a social nature, and specifically in prevention programmes.
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Building smart sustainable cities with CITIIS
In July 2018, AFD launched one of its largest national level projects – CITIIS (City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain). 100 cities have been shortlisted by the government of India to bec...
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AFD and governance
By helping governments to more effectively fulfill their sovereign functions and civil society to be involved in collective decision-making, AFD is taking up the challenge of inclusive development, in...
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AFD and Bangladesh
Since 2012, AFD and Bangladesh have been working together to develop low-carbon infrastructure and to promote access to essential services for the people. AFD acts through loans and also mobilizes Eur...
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