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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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Workshop on socio-economic impact of off-grid electrification
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November, 13-14, Paris. The CLUB-ER and FERDI within the framework of IDGM are organizing a workshop to share with researchers and practitioners advances in identifying and measuring the impacts of decentralized electrification projects.
14 October 2019
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Revue d'économie du développement 2018/4 (vol 26)
Revue d'économie du développement 2018/4 (vol.26): Varia
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The 2018/4 issue has just been published.
11 October 2019
The Conversation
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FLORIAN LÉON : Le découragement des emprunteurs, boulet des PME dans les pays en développement
09 October 2019
Hôtellerie : La « nouvelle frontière » africaine
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BY PAUL DERREUMAUX (post in French)
08 October 2019
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Taxation of mining industries
UPDATE- Tax data for 2017 and 2018 are now available  for Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
03 October 2019

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Is there a Strategy in China’s Health Official Development Assistance to African Countries?
By Marlène GUILLON, Jacky MATHONNAT
October 14, 2019
Revue d'économie du développement 2018/4 (vol.26): Varia
October 11, 2019
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Out of the trap: Supporting the least developed countries
September 25, 2019
Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
By Michal BURZYŃSKI, Jaime DE MELO, Frédéric DOCQUIER
September 18, 2019
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area: An opportunity to deepen cooperation on Regional public goods
By Jaime DE MELO
September 17, 2019
The role of an environmental Goods Agreement in the quest to improve the regime complex for climate change
By Jaime DE MELO, Jean-Marc SOLLEDER
September 16, 2019

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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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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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