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Independent and not-for-profit, the Foundation for studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) proposes relevant and innovative thinking on the key issues in development economics.

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Formation GPE Session 2021-2022. Trombinoscope des auditeurs.

GPE Program

The Economic Policy Management (GPE) training programme.

The GPE 2021-2022 class and the entire IHEDD-FERDI team wish you all the best for this New Year. For reminder the call for applications for the 2022-2023 class is now open: the deadline for submitting applications to the World Bank scholarships is 28 February 2022.

19 January 2022

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IMF support in Poor Countries: The reform of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT)

WEBINAR. January 18, 2022. 3:00-4:30 PM.

FERDI organised a webinar on the reform of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Fund (PRGT). Replay forthcoming.

19 January 2022

The elusive quest for high-growth firms in Africa: when other metrics of performance say nothing

Publication

The article by Florian Léon, Research Officer at FERDI, has just been published in Small Business Economics.

18 January 2022

Economic Policy Management (GPE) training programme

Training course

The call for applications for the class of 2022-2023 (GPE29) is launched! Information and application: Click here.

19 January 2022

Formation

Comprendre et modéliser le partage de la rente minière en Afrique

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour cette formation comprenant 25 heures d’enseignement à distance, avec un suivi personnalisé de chaque participant.e.

12 January 2022

Latest publications

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The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa

By Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI, Fayçal SAWADOGO

January 18, 2022

The elusive quest for high-growth firms in Africa: when other metrics of performance say nothing

By Florian LÉON

January 18, 2022

L’évolution des facilités du FMI pour les pays pauvres

By Bruno CABRILLAC, Luc JACOLIN

January 17, 2022

À quelles conditions l’Afrique peut-elle de nouveau rebondir ?

By Paul DERREUMAUX

December 30, 2021

Présentation : The AfCTA under digitalization: A primer for Sierra Leone

By Jaime DE MELO

December 10, 2021

Presentation: The AfCTA: A stepping stone for Regional Public Goods

By Jaime DE MELO

December 10, 2021

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Chairs

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The Sahel Chair aims to enlighten the decisions of public and private actors in their action to end the Sahel crisis and to promote sustainable development in the region. Its headquarters are in Ouagadougou.

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IHEDD Training courses

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development (IHEDD), is the training institute of the laboratory of excellence Labex IDGM+ "Initiative for Development and Global Governance". IHEDD offers an Economic Policy Management Masters programme (GPE), short training courses (on line or on site), and tailor-made training courses on demand.

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Observatoire de la Compétitivité Durable

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Build your own index

BYIND

The application "Build your index" allows the testing of the Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) by choosing different weights and/or different definitions for the components used by the United Nations. The current series cover 145 developing countries from the 1970s to 2016.

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Taxation of mining industries

Mining taxation

FERDI makes available the first legal and tax database which lists the tax regime applicable to industrial gold mines in 21 African countries from the 1980s to the present, and a simulation tool for sharing the mineral resource rent between states and investors.

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