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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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The effectiveness of an environmental credit line in Egypt: Synergies between market incentive and binding reg...
Among the many embodiments of the global sustainable development project, “green finance” is gaining ground and profile. Designed to both avoid investments with a negative environmental impact and mak...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness for SMEs in Developing Countries: South Africa and Vietnam
Les PME sont souvent accusées de traîner pour mettre en place des pratiques de RSE. Pourtant, cette perception résulte plus d'une application d'un mode de pensée propre aux grandes entreprises. Cette...
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Tools for what trade? Analysing the Utilisation of Economic Instruments and Valuations in Biodiversity Managem...
L'utilisation des outils économiques est aujourd'hui au cœur des débats sur l'action en faveur de la biodiversité. Un décalage majeur prévaut cependant entre l'omniprésence de ces outils dans les disc...
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Implementing Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Programs in Existing Buildings in China - Conference in Wuhan (Chin...
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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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Panorama of the Urban and Municipal Sector in India
La transition urbaine de l'Inde aura des impacts majeurs ces vingt prochaines années. En comparaison à la moyenne mondiale (50 %), le taux d'urbanisation du pays, situé juste au-dessus de 30 %, est en...
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Institutional Pathways for Local Climate Adaptation: A Comparison of Three South African Municipalities
Cette recherche porte sur les facteurs politiques, institutionnels et sociaux à l'origine de l'initiation de l'adaptation climatique à Cape Town, Durban et Theewaterskloof, localement considérées comm...
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The regulation of small scale water providers in Laos
The question of how to oversee initiatives such as regulation of Small-Scale Independent Provider without hampering their innovation potential has been studied by AFD and GRET through a common researc...
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Linking Labour Organisation and Vocational Training in Uganda: lessons for rural poverty reduction
This study examines the conditions for effective skills development to reduce rural poverty in Uganda. It is shown that the capacity of the vocational education and training system, despite its ongoin...
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A Comparative Study of Evaluation Policies and Practices in Development agencies
This study was commissioned to map and compare evaluation practices across development agencies, primarily with a view to stimulate an internal debate within AFD on its evaluation systems during a tim...
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Refining AFD’s Interventions in the Palestinian Territories - Increasing Resilience in Area C
Zone C in the West Bank is a territory rich in natural resources and with great potential for economic development. It is also the only part of the West Bank over which the Palestinian Authority has n...
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Addressing Development Challenges in Emerging Asia: A Strategic Review of the AFD-ADB Partnership
After some seven years of collaboration under the 2003 MoU, AFD and ADB agreed to carry out a strategic review of their partnership. The overall objectives of the review have been threefold: (i) revie...
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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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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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South-South cooperation and new agricultural development aid actors in western and southern Africa - China and...
The aim of this study is to better understand, from the information collected on missions undertaken in Senegal, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, and Brazil, the scope and methods of Chinese and Brazilian co...
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Challenges for African Agriculture
This book focuses squarely on the future of Sub-Saharan African agriculture and agriculture’s role in the subcontinent’s development. It reveals the scope of the demographic, economic, and environment...
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