Publications and media
Turkey: forests adapted to current and future climate change
Increase in temperatures, increase in forest fires, disruption of precipitation… the effects of climate change on Turkish and French forests are strong. Supported by AFD, expert institutions from both...
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Water and Sanitation - 2020 Activity Report
The United Nations recognized the human right to access to water and sanitation in 2010, but there is still much progress to be made: over two billion people do not have access to a quality drinking w...
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AFD and the water and sanitation sector in Uganda
Uganda has embarked on an ambitious Water and Sanitation Sector Development Program. In order to contribute to its achievement, AFD is focusing on three main strategic lines: Improving access to...
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Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Paper
Very little attention has been paid to African inequality dynamics in high-profile international discussions of changing global inequality despite the fact that African dynamics will become increasing...
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The distributional impacts of development cooperation projects
In 2015, world leaders committed, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to reduce inequalities. Accordingly, a specific Sustainable Development Goals Goal (SDG 10) has b...
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Water and Sanitation works with Neighborhood Participation: regulated and transparent
This policy brief is targeting State authorities involved in the water and sanitation sector, regardless of whether they are responsible for public policies, regulators, executors or projects financer...
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Water provision and management of urban-rural interface territories
The urban-rural interface territories, as well as their inhabitants, play a key role in the collection and distribution of water resources for the city, often because the sources and infrastructures a...
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Water in the city of El Alto, a right that arrives incomplete
In Bolivia cities, statistics reflect a high access to water coverage and a lower coverage of basic sanitation. The phenomenon can be observed in the city of El Alto. A socio-economic analysis conduct...
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Social Housing and Spatial Inequality in South African Cities
Social housing can be a powerful tool for integrating socially divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families in central urban areas. Yet as new...
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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South African Cities
Not enough is being done to maximise the prospects of upward mobility for the tenants of South Africa’s social housing programme. Household-level improvements in well-being are generally taken for gra...
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining
The social, economic and ecological consequences of unabated sand exploitation are profound. Sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Penh and urban farmers, whose liv...
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Environmental Inequalities in the Mekong River Basin: A systematic mapping of existing knowledge
How do accelerating environmental changes impact inequalities and how do rising inequalities affect, in reverse, environmental dynamics? Numerous studies have tackled one specific aspect of the relati...
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Inequality measurements: the impact of a correction for missing top incomes in a South African household surve...
Often the richest households are poorly captured in household surveys1, leading to a likely underestimate of inequality in analyses such as CEQ Assessments2 that conduct fiscal incidence using househo...
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South African housing subsidies: the challenges of measuring the impact of a productive asset
When analysing the impact of South African housing subsidies on poverty, Goldman, Woolard & Jellema (forthcoming) find that the housing programme looks less progressive than expected. They find bo...
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Fiscal Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unequal Effects on Children’s Health
New research reveals that policies of fiscal consolidation (public spending cuts and/or tax rises) in sub-Saharan African countries are, on average, associated with higher infant mortality: the estima...
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Building Fiscal Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Local Inequality
Are people’s attitudes towards taxation affected by local levels of inequality in the provision of public goods such as electricity, healthcare, and education? New research on sub-Saharan Africa revea...
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Measuring Local Inequality: Insights from Data on Night Lights
Data on human emissions of light at night – as detected by satellites – provide valuable insights into the extent of inequality at the local level. New research uses the latest generation of night lig...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
Even though Vietnam has achieved great social and economic development over the past 30 years, notorious gaps remain not only in income, but also in other critical dimensions of well-being and politic...
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Springs and collective laundries in the city of La Paz, notes for their management
The urban landscape of the city of La Paz hides a large number of underground rivers but reveals dozens of springs on its hillside territories. These springs have multiple meanings, mainly for women,...
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Access to water: persistence of inequalities in the life of women
This policy brief is aimed primarily at decision-makers at the municipal, regional and national levels, as well as at non-governmental institutions, neighborhood councils and private institutions. As...
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Municipal planning and inter-institutional coordination for good water management
Water distribution systems involve various actors. Access to water is a fundamental human right that materializes in a set of rules, laws and institutions that exercise shared, exclusive or concurrent...
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