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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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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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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to...
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Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender a...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Ori...
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Water and Its Many Issues - Methods and Cross-cutting Analysis - Regional Social Sciences Summer University "T...
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the University of Nantes, the École française d’Extrê...
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Mayotte
Mayotte is France’s newest “department” and is facing a number of challenges: local authorities in need of support, infrastructure in need of development and a private sector in need of rejuvenation,...
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The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of...
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Learning for life and work : GEFOP contribution to the World Development Report 2007
GEFOP is a group of vocational training experts set up by the AFD. It brings together vocational training researchers, managers and practitioners from Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as training spec...
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development in Africa
This paper underlines a paradox: although "pro-poor" development assistance policies pay little attention to natural capital, the fact is that such resources are of great practical importance for the...
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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the yea...
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Energie du Mali, or the paradoxes of a "resounding failure"
It is generally agreed the last public-private partnership in which EDM was engaged, from 2000 to 2005, was a "resounding failure": international donors, professionals, and the totality of the Malian...
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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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Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience
There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and...
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What Microfinance for Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Between 2005 and 2007 the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) conducted several ex post evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in both urban and rural areas. A specific foc...
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Mexico
The second largest economy in Latin America, Mexico is strongly committed to the fight against climate change, environmental protection and the energy transition. Its objective is to halve its greenho...
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Analysis of the Determinants of the Demand for Financial Services in Rural Morocco
This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, whic...
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Cotton and Poverty in West Africa: a Comparative Analysis of Household Living Conditions in Mali and Burkina F...
The present study is made up of three sections. The first lays out the terms of the debate on the “Sikasso paradox” as a preamble. The second offers a statistical diagnosis of the standards of living...
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