Publications and media
Community participation in the Pantanal, Brazil: containment games and learning processes
In this paper, we inquire into how “community participation” (CP) played out in the creation of the Pantanal Regional Park (PRP), a large-scale participatory initiative launched in 1998 in the Brazili...
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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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Community Participation in Biodiversity Protection: An Enhanced Analytical Framework for Practitioners
This paper presents an enhanced analytical framework to project designers and evaluators for reinforcing their analysis of initiatives based on "community participation"-with a special focus on proje...
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Gender disparities in Africa‘s labor market
Gender Disparities in Africa‘s Labor Market helps to fill the knowledge gap and identify the links between gender disparities and poverty reduction. The work was implemented in collaboration with a ra...
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Randomized Controlled Evaluation of SKY Health Insurance in Cambodia, Survey ProtocolRandomized Controlled Eva...
This proposal describes an impact evaluation of the SKY Health Insurance Program in Cambodia. The origins of SKY (Sokapheap Krousar Yeung, “Health for Our Families”) lie in a microfinance program laun...
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Assessing the Effects of Health Insurance: The SKY Micro-Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
When people experience a major health shock, their medical expenses typically rise and their contribution to household income and production (cooking, childcare, etc.) declines (Wagstaff and Doorslaer...
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Institutional Profiles Database III - Presentation of the Institutional Profiles Database 2009 (IPD 2009)
This document presents an overview of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) 2009. The IPD offers researchers a quantitative evaluation of the institutional characteristics of 123 countries coverin...
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Sectoral aid in practice
Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, developing countries and donors have increasingly favoured the development of sectoral aid, which represents a substantially different approach from t...
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Local taxation: an economy-based guide
The present paper is an extension of the research work undertaken by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the field of local taxation. The study by Dafflon et al. (2008), published in the se...
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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologi...
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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...
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Market Access and Specialization in Cash Crops: Vietnam’s Expected Gains from WTO Accession
This paper discusses the link between trade liberalization and farmers’ decisions to specialize in cash crops. Farmers are differentiated between subsistence-oriented farmers and export-oriented cash...
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The Banking System of Vietnam after the Accession to WTO: Transition and its Challenges
Le secteur bancaire vietnamien a été largement restructuré au cours des deux dernières décennies, et les autorités se sont engagées à poursuivre la libéralisation du secteur pour rejoindre l’Organisat...
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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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External Debt in Low-Income Countries: Taking Stock and New Perspectives
In the wake of debt relief initiatives (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives), there has been a lot of questioning on donors’ lending strategies towards developing...
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Poverty, Access to Credit and the Determinants of Participation in a New Micro-credit Program in Rural Areas o...
This paper describes the economic living conditions of the population in dispersed rural areas of Morocco and analyses their response to the introduction of a new micro-credit program. The first secti...
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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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The investment climate in Egypt: Institutions or Relationships as Conditions for Sustainable Reform?
Observations made here show that it is possible to improve the investment climate, achieve effective cooperation between private investors and political decision-makers, fight against corruption and m...
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa Area
During the nineties, the globalization of telecommunications imposed a model of development based on the suppression of public monopolies, leading to international competition and the privatization of...
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Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future
This paper is the executive summary of a collective publication: Africa and its Demographic Challenges: an Uncertain Future, edited by Benoît Ferry. This study was born out of a workshop on demography...
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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...
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