Search results
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...
Publication
Published on
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...
Publication
Published on
Institutions, Development and Poverty
This paper explores the relationships between institutions, growth and poverty, presenting the multiplicity of the causal links connecting these three terms. There is currently a consensus that instit...
Publication
Published on
AFD and its Partners - The Cultural Dimension
A development agency operating in a large number of countries and territories is faced with great cultural diversity. There are, of course, universal or almost universal expectations towards it. They...
Publication
Published on
Aid for Trade in Developing Countries : Complex Linkages for Real Effectiveness
Aid for trade is intended to support the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. Although this form of aid is being hailed as a promising new development tool, it lacks the...
Publication
Published on
Egyptian Industry since the Early 1970s: A History of Thwarted Development
The political will to promote industry in Egypt has thus been affirmed for many years, under a variety of strategies. To what extent has Egypt’s industrial performance matched the effort invested? Has...
Publication
Published on
Urban Development in Vietnam: the Rise of Local Authorities Resources, limits, and evolution of local governan...
Local authorities are playing an increasingly influential role in the exponential economic growth and development of Vietnam and its cities. They have now become key actors playing pivotal roles in th...
Publication
Published on
Euro-Med Growth and Trade Integration: can we talk of a cost of the non-Mediterranean?
This paper revisits the debate on EuroMediterranean integration to reassess its observed and expected impact on the economic growth of the South and East Mediterranean countries (SEMCs).
Publication
Published on
Jordan: the stakes of growth in a troubled regional context
Since 2008, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been affected by different kinds of shocks. The international financial crisis and then the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis ha...
Publication
Published on
Export diversification in the franc zone: its extent, sophistication and dynamics
It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The...
Publication
Published on
The challenges of India‘s economic policy
Over the 1990s and 2000s, India experienced a remarkable acceleration in its rate of economic growth comparable in the mid-2000s to that of its neighbour China. This economic “take-off”, which was par...
Publication
Published on
Population and natural resources - Proceedings of the 6th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2008
The theme of the environment and its management in view of the sustainability of living standards has today taken on paramount importance. This renewed interest has been spurred by a series of recent...
Publication
Published on
Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success
For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...
Publication
Published on
Development Challenges in Latin America
Despite remarkable economic dynamism and poverty reduction over the past decade, Latin America must still overcome many socioeconomic challenges to achieve sustainable development. Against a backdrop...
Publication
Published on
Integrating Marginalized Neighborhoods into Cities: Tomorrow‘s Challenge
Urban growth is spreading mainly in the cities of the South, and the populations of marginalized neighborhoods are expected to double and reach 2 billion in 2030. It is unrealistic to imagine a future...
Publication
Published on
The agrarian question in South Africa
The end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election as President of the Republic turned a page in the history of South Africa. In 1994, some 60,000 (white) farmers held around 87 million hectares of la...
Publication
Published on
Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?
In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...
Publication
Published on
Agricultural Credit: Assessing the Use of Interest Rate Subsidies
Since the beginning of the 20th century, interest rate subsidies have been one of the tools used all around the world for developing agriculture, especially by major agricultural countries such as Fra...
Publication
Published on
Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...
Publication
Published on
When Can Work Performed by Women Become a Factor in Their Empowerment? - Women‘s access to quality employment ...
The employment of women in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey is not necessarily equated with financial, social and/or political empowerment. Though the three countries share striking similarities as regards...
Publication
Published on
