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Interview de Jean-Michel Severino dans l'émission 28' d'Arte

Aide au développement : les pays riches ont-ils laissé tomber les plus pauvres ?

03 July 2025

Designing allocation rules according to the nature of the flows and their goals - FFD4 session

AGENDA, 1st July 2025

Session parallèle à la 4ème Conférence internationale des Nations unies sur le financement du développement (FfD4) organisée par la Ferdi et la république de Guinée.

30 June 2025

Nouveau numéro de la Revue d'économie du développement

Publication

Ce numéro spécial, réalisé en partenariat avec l’AFEDEV, rassemble les contributions issues des travaux présenté lors de la Conférence internationale en économie du développement (ICDE) organisée à Aix-Marseille (AMSE) les 2 et 3 juillet 2024.

18 June 2025

Concessional Finance for LDCs: Challenges and Prospects in the Present Turmoil - FFD4 Session

AGENDA, 3 July 2025

Side event to the 4th United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4).

03 July 2025

AGENDA, 2 July 2025

Measuring and Reducing Tax Gaps: Key Issues for Effective Domestic Resource Mobilization in Developing Countries- FFD4 Session

Side event to the 4th United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4).

03 July 2025

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Présentation "Measuring and Reducing Tax GAPS: Key issues for effective domestic Resource Mobilization in developing countries"

By Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI

July 02, 2025

Mapping Financial Support from Major Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to Public Development Banks (PDBs)

By Florian LÉON

June 26, 2025

Comment la fermeture de l’USAID va affecter l’allocation de l’aide publique au développement mondiale

By Matthieu BOUSSICHAS, Bruno CABRILLAC, Clara PUGNET

June 26, 2025

The Impact of Submarine Cables on Internet Access Price, and the Role of Competition and Regulation

By Joël CARIOLLE, Georges Vivien HOUNGBONON, Tarna Abdoul Hamid SILUE , Davide STRUSANI

June 20, 2025

Présentation : Atelier sur la fiscalité environnementale - Enjeux de la fiscalité environnementale

By Alou Adessé DAMA

June 18, 2025

Critical Minerals: Estimating Price Elasticity of Supply Using Mine-Level Data

By Luc JACOLIN, Florian LÉON, Édouard MIEN, Paul VERTIER

June 18, 2025

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Chairs

List of chaires

Created in 2022 the Chair "International Architecture of Development Finance" analyses the reforms needed to modernise the global financial architecture.

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IHEDD Training courses

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development (IHEDD) is the training division of the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (Ferdi), a recognized provider of professional training. IHEDD’s mission is to train stakeholders involved in development projects and public policies, drawing on academic expertise and in-depth knowledge of field realities.

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Observatoire de la Compétitivité Durable

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Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index

PVCCI

For more than 10 years, FERDI has been calculating and regularly updating a Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI). Freely available, the PVCCI measures the geophysical risks faced by countries as a result of climate change.

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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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