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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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Illustration. Formation " Identifier et construire son projet de développement. "
Identifier et construire son projet de développement. FORMATION EN LIGNE
Training course
An online training course provided by AFD Campus and Ferdi-IHEDD. This training course, in French, involves regular work of about 4 hours per week. It also includes webinars with AFD experts. Please note that the number of places is limited. 
19 October 2021
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Identifying and measuring vulnerabilities in West Africa for operational responses
Training course
This training course is intended to decision-makers and technical staff from administrations, and organisations in West Africa who need to take vulnerability into account in the design and implementation of public policies. Training course in French.
14 October 2021
2021 FPI Forum "Good News from Africa"
Event
With the participation of Patrick Guillaumont (opening remarks), Jean-Marc Gravellini (moderator of the round tables on agriculture), Jean-Michel Severino (intervention during the session "African entrepreneurship: A key player in Africa's economic takeoff."
19 October 2021
LDC Future Forum | UN-OHRLLS, UNU-WIDER, SDSN.
Event
Introductory session "Setting the Stage for the Future of LDCs" with Patrick Guillaumont, president of FERDI.
19 October 2021
Blog
Investing in the exceptional African creativity
Laureen Kouassi Olson for Entreprenanteafrique.com: Capitalize on the African creative exception. How can African designers and luxury brands expand internationally?
19 October 2021

Latest publications

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Systèmes financiers de l’UEMOA : des indicateurs contradictoires
By Paul DERREUMAUX
October 19, 2021
Presentation : The Trade Facilitation Agreement : estimates of reduction in time at customs for the United Nations’ vulnerable economies
By Jaime DE MELO, Zakaria SORGHO, Laurent WAGNER
October 07, 2021
Presentation : LDCs criteria and structural transformation: Are improvements in LDCs’ structural handicaps a step towards structural transformation?
By Alassane DRABO
October 06, 2021
Presentation: The Rationale of the Least Developed Countries Category over Half a Century
By Patrick GUILLAUMONT
October 06, 2021
Décès de Claude Montmarquette
By Patrick GUILLAUMONT
September 30, 2021
Efficiency of district hospitals in Zimbabwe: Assessment, drivers and policy implications
By Martine AUDIBERT, Marlène GUILLON, Jacky MATHONNAT
September 24, 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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Indicators

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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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Blogs

Entreprenante Afrique
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