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Committed emissions and the risk of stranded assets from power plants in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has the least carbon-intensive electricity sector of any region in the world, as hydropower remains the largest source of electricity. But are existing plans cons...
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Summary on the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)
Immediately after COP21 in 2015, the Parties requested the IPCC to issue a special report on the ocean and the cryosphere. Entitled "IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere in a changing c...
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Minka Lake Chad Initiative
The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The...
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Minka Sahel Initiative
The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one millio...
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Minka CAR Initiative
The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a situation of chronic conflict, with militant activity by armed groups spreading over a large swath of the country, including violent attacks agains...
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Minka Middle East Initiative
The wars in Syria and Iraq have driven more than 15 million people to flee their homes and have caused the largest population displacement in the Middle East since World War II. The top host countries...
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Towards a Sustainable Belt and Road Initiative?
The study of China’s international financial flows shows that it has become a major player in international financing. With the Belt and Road Initiative, China has promoted a narrative of development...
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AFD Group and Georgia
AFD Group promotes a fair and inclusive transition in Georgia, and its convergence path towards its integration in the European Union. It has been operating in Georgia since 2012 in the sectors of ene...
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Inequality trends in South Africa: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality
This report on inequality trends in South Africa is a joint publication produced by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in partnership with the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SAL...
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AFD and State-Owned Enterprises
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a role in the implementation of development policies. For this reason, they are key players in a country’s economic and social environment, and improving their perf...
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The Challenges of Energy Transition in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence française de développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), École française d’Extrême-O...
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Dominican Republic
Operating in the Dominican Republic since 1997, and having significantly ramped up its activity there since 2011, AFD is now the country's leading bilateral partner. Its work primarily involves suppor...
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Defining Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion is one of the most difficult, yet one of the most important, challenges facing South Africa. However, while there is a widespread agreement that social cohesion influences ec...
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From definition to measurement: Constructing a social cohesion index for South Africa
Social cohesion has increasingly become a subject of interest for international organisations, governments, policy-makers and other practitioners. Whilst social cohesion is not a new concept, finding...
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India - 2017-2021 Strategy
With a total net commitment of almost EUR 1.5bn since the opening of AFD’s India agency in 2008 and annual commitments of around EUR 250m since 2013,27 activities in India represent, nearly a quarter...
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AFD and sport: a vehicle for social cohesion and equity
Sport is a valuable tool for helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It contributes to peace, education, gender equality and health and opens up new horizons for development actors, in part...
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Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa
Africa’s natural wealth is enormous. Growing investments in infrastructure and a better business climate are helping to translate this wealth into productive physical capital. The continent’s large an...
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Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa
Despite economic growth and improvements in many dimensions of welfare, poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa hereafter). Approximately two people in five li...
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The Gap Between Rich and Poor: South African Society’s Biggest Divide Depends on Where You Think You Fit In
In this paper, we consider social cohesion primarily in terms of its absence – “the nature and extent of social and economic divisions within society” (Easterly et al., 2006: 105). We use data from th...
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Income Distribution in Latin America. The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable g...
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