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Assessing Biases in Call-detail records for Development Estimates
This article contributes to improving our understanding of biases in estimates of demographic indicators, in the developing world, based on Call Detail Records (CDRs). CDRs represent an important and...
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Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school...
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AFD and Civil Society Organizations
The partnership between AFD and civil society has been greatly enhanced in recent years, making civil society organizations (CSOs) essential partners for AFD. In terms of financing, AFD’s budget to su...
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Reintegration upon return: insights from Ecuadorian returnees from Spain
Using the ECM2 survey data on Ecuadorian migrants returning from Spain, we investigate the determinants of reintegration upon return. We study how the migration experience, but also the before- and af...
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Coping with the Collapse: A Stock-Flow Consistent Monetary Macrodynamics of Global Warming
This paper presents a macroeconomic model of endogenous growth that enables us to take into consideration both the economic impact of climate change and the pivotal role of private debt. Using the Goo...
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Resilience to Crisis and Social Protection
This paper investigates the linkage between social protection policies and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income and growth? What role do social protection policies play...
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Evaluation Summary - Budget support operation for decentralization in the Philippines
In the Philippines, the budget support operation for decentralization was subject to an evaluation in July 2016. Due to a lack of regulatory framework and of local government unit capacities, the e...
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Shared Challenges for Development within ASEAN - Applied and Analytical Methods
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Nantes, École...
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Afd2025: Development agencies, steering through future worlds
What world awaits us in 2025? How to gear up for it and build a world which attracts us? AFD has conducted an impressive forward-looking exercise – Afd2025. Its initiators tell us about the four scena...
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State Legitimacy: A Multidimensional Approach
This paper intends to develop a multidimensional measure of state legitimacy that provides original information on the interaction between a country’s polity and its social fabric. An index of state l...
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Water from the heights, water from the grassroots: the Governance of common dynamics and public services in La...
As in many large cities, the now prevailing technical model for producing and distributing water in La Paz and El Alto is that of a centralized network serving the whole population of the two cities....
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How do earmarked funds change the geographical allocation of multilateral assistance?
Almost nonexistent in the early 90s, bilateral development assistance disbursed through earmarked funds co-managed by multilateral donors is playing an increasing role in the aid landscape. While the...
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Supporting Access to and Retention in Employment for Women by Enhancing Child Care Services in Turkey
Female labor force participation remains low in Turkey compared to other OECD countries and labor market attachment is particularly low among women with children. In recent years, government policy ha...
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International emigration and labour market outcomes of women staying behind: the case of Morocco
We tackle the issue of women's activity rates in Morocco by adopting a mixed method approach. Using the 2007 household survey, we find that having a migrant in the household increases women's labour p...
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Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Groundwater
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the...
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Evaluation Summary - Second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2)
In Laos, the second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2) was subject to an evaluation in May 2016. The company Nam Papa Nakhone Luang (NPNL) was unable to me...
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Sahelian youth: dynamics of exclusion, means of integration
For twenty years now, the Sahel region has been marked by rising insecurity, political crises, and poorly controlled flows of people, arms and illegal goods, with a major risk of States becoming desta...
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Evaluation Summary - Şishane-Yenikapi metro extension project of the metropolitan municipality of Istanbul
In Turkey, the Sishane-Yenikapi metro extension project of the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul was subject to an evaluation in March 2016. The major transportation scheme designed by the Metr...
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What is a sustainable agriculture sector?
In developing countries, many farmers live in poverty. How can the situation be reversed? Is it possible to give priority to environmentally friendly agricultural practices while allowing everyone to...
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Support to local socio-economic revitalisation in cities undergoing crisis
AFD is regularly called upon to support urban development projects in areas recovering from crises, be they natural or political. Above and beyond the simple reconstruction of buildings, such requests...
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Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Contributions to Social Change - Meaningfully measuring international ...
There are many actors in the field of international solidarity and decentralized development cooperation who seek to orient or contribute to "social change". While they agree that social change canno...
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