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Macroeconomic country-assessment – Mexico

Mexico is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.

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Assess to Advance - 2017 - 2018 evaluations report

AFD in the Gulf of Guinea: strategy and European partnerships

Corporate Social Responsibility & Activity Report 2023: AFD Group committed to the SDGs

Inequalities in access to basic services and impact of public policies in Côte d'Ivoire

While the Ivorian economy is experiencing a definite upturn, there is hardly any decline in the level of poverty and inequalities. This research program has been included in the Strategic Dialog Memor...

The distributional impact of social protection: short- and longer-run inequalities in Ethiopia, India and Peru

The project aims to establish the causal impact of three large-scale social-protection schemes in India, Ethiopia and Peru on both the level of economic resources and a number of dimensions of inequal...

Assessing equity in health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa - Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia

This research project examines the equity benefit of total health spending with particular focus on the recent Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, by looking at the distribu...

Madagascar

A continent-island rich in unique biodiversity and potential, Madagascar is today one of the poorest countries in the world. Since 1952, AFD has been committed to supporting sustainable development th...

Inequalities diagnostic and fiscal incidence study in Kenya

Although substantial progress has been made in the fight against poverty, disease, and illiteracy since independence in Kenya, a remaining challenge is linked to inequality. An understanding of inequa...

The dynamics and interactions of income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Ghana

Led by the University of Ghana, this research project focuses on inequalities in Ghana, where they remain at important levels although this country has experienced rapid economic growth and significan...

Climate variability and inequalities in Indonesia and in Vietnam

Climate change and variability in South East Asia (SEA) has been remarkable in the past 20 years. The peculiarity of the economy and societal structure of SEA has an impact on how these effects will b...

Inequalities and environmental changes in the Lower Mekong River Basin

This project proposes a systematic analysis of the inequality-environmental change nexus in the Lower Mekong River Basin Region. It aims at building scientific base for policy action as well as identi...

Fiscal Incidence Analysis

The CEQ Assessment is a tool that analyzes the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty, allowing governments to assess the redistributive and poverty-reduction impact of their...

Analysis of the distributional impact of development cooperation projects

It is critical to assess how, and the extent to which, projects and programmes supported by development agencies contribute to the goal of reducing within country inequalities. A methodology (Morabito...

New Caledonia: A New Tool to Measure Environmental Sustainability

Measuring the environmental impact of economic activities can be a complicated business. A new pilot project, assesses New Caledonia's environmental sustainability, based on the Environmental Sustaina...

Digital labour platforms in Buenos Aires: Working conditions and gender inequality

What is the effect of app-based platforms for the personal service sector in Argentina? This project explores the labour conditions and performance experienced on the platform by workers like food del...

ENGULF: Assessing exposure to relative sea-level rise along the Gulf of Guinea

The coastline of the Gulf of Guinea is lowly elevated and particularly vulnerable to sea level rise triggered by climate change. However, in some places, another important factor has to be taken into...

Measuring environmental sustainability in Colombia and South Africa: application of the ESGAP framework

Within the framework of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD supports the development of methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability at the level of a territory - and more particularly i...

Developing the ESGAP method in order to assess physical risks related to economic activities

As part of the ECOPRONAT research program, AFD is seeking to develop new applications of the ESGAP framework, a methodology for assessing environmental sustainability at the scale of a territory. Focu...