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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...

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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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System

For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...

How to Finance the Protection of Biodiversity?

About $143 billion will be invested in the protection of biodiversity in 2020. However, three times as much is required to halt the destruction of ecosystems, and preserve the benefits and services th...

Incorporating biodiversity into development trajectories

In recent seminal studies for France and the Netherlands, biodiversity has been proven a significant source of financial vulnerability, both in terms of potential physical impacts, dependence to ecosy...

Global biodiversity scenarios: what do they tell us for biodiversity-related socioeconomic impacts?

This paper aims to review and compare existing global and quantitative biodiversity scenarios that could help to build a forward-looking assessment of the consequences of biodiversity loss.  Mor...

Global biodiversity scenarios: what do they tell us for Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks?

The risks associated with biodiversity loss could have severe socio-economic and financial consequences, at least as large as those imposed by climate change, in addition to interacting with them. Bec...

Biodiversity and financial instability with Julien Calas

The collapse of biodiversity threatens the financial system because there are two types of crisis: the physical crisis and the transition crisis. Whatever the type of crisis, if the problem becomes wi...

Socioeconomic and spatially-explicit assessment of Nature-related risks: the case of South Africa

This study introduces new methods for evaluating nature-related socioeconomic risks in the South African context, anchored on two main contributions. Firstly, it embarks on a multidimensional analysis...

Evaluation of the AFD “Protected Area” conservation and development intervention contributions (2000-2017). Sy...

Since 2000, the AFD and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) have committed financial agreements in direct support to the establishment and management of protected areas (PA). One of the obje...

Evaluation of the Second Objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework (2013–2017)

The Agence française de développement (AFD) has entrusted the evaluation of the second objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework to EY in partnership with Biotope. The Cross-c...

Defining standards of good ecological condition for computing the ESGAP in developing countries

This report seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of an "all-country" ESGAP (Environmental Sustainability Gap), the implementation of the framework and the calculation of ESGAP parameters for as many c...

Preliminary comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks

This report is extracted from a study to prepare a comparative analysis of six biodiversity metrics submitted to Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and De...

What role for social policies in the framework of the just transition in South Africa?

This paper explores the extent to which social policies in South Africa might serve as mechanisms to enhance the transition to a low carbon economy and contribute to mitigating some of the negative im...

Methods for Credible Evaluation of Programme Stimulus Effects in South Africa

In response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020-2021 the South African government instituted various economic relief and stimulus programmes. These included substantial increases to socia...

Stimulus effects of a large public employment programme

We characterize the spending and factor income effects of a large public employment programme in South Africa. We match anonymized participant IDs with weekly individual-level sales data from one of t...