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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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Mining tax database for Africa
Data
Updated tax data for 2019 are now available for Cameroon, Chad and Ghana.
27 January 2020
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Naomie Mvumbi Madidila
Le programme GPE vu par ses auditeurs
MÉDIA
Programme Gestion de la Politique Économique (GPE) -L'appel à candidature pour la promotion 2020-2021 est toujours en cours (date limite : 29 février 2020). 
27 January 2020
Fin du franc CFA en Afrique de l’Ouest, quel avenir pour l’éco?
Publication
Le samedi 21 décembre 2019, le Président de la République française et le Président de la Côte d’Ivoire réunis à Abidjan à l’occasion de la visite du premier, ont ensemble annoncé la fin du franc CFA et son remplacement par l’éco. 
20 January 2020
UNCTAD: Presentation of the book "Out of the trap : Supporting the least developed countries"
Event
UNCTAD holds the presentation of the book edited by Patrick Guillaumont in Geneva, the 23rd January 2020. Registration online is mandatory.
27 January 2020
Programme Gestion de la Politique Économique (GPE)
L'appel à candidatures pour la 27ème promotion (session 2020-2021) est lancé.
Depuis son lancement en 1994, le programme de formation en Gestion de la Politique Économique (GPE) est reconnu comme l’une des principales formations françaises en matière de renforcement des capacités des cadres publics économistes des pays en développement, en particulier des pays francophones d’Afrique subsaharienne. 
17 December 2019

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Presentation: Out of the trap Supporting the least developed countries
By Patrick GUILLAUMONT
January 27, 2020
Climate migration frightens... climate poverty is frightening!
By Michal BURZYŃSKI, Jaime DE MELO, Christoph DEUSTER, Frédéric DOCQUIER
January 17, 2020
Présentation : La qualité des dépenses publiques dans le monde: mesure et déterminants
By Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI
January 16, 2020
The Global Fund in the era of SDGs: time to rethink?
By Françoise BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, François DABIS, Jean-Paul MOATTI, Josselin THUILLIEZ, Yazdan YAZDANPANAH
January 15, 2020
Do Banks and Microfinance Institutions Compete? Microevidence from Madagascar
By Pierrick BARATON, Florian LÉON
January 15, 2020
Presentation: Civil conflict and firm recovery : Evidence from post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire
By Ibrahima DOSSO, Florian LÉON
January 14, 2020

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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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