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Reallocating Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for vulnerable countries

CONFERENCE, July 30

The Center for Global Development (CGD -- www.cgdev.org) and the Foundation for International Development Studies and Research (FERDI - www.ferdi.fr) are co-hosting a public event on financing African economies through the issuance and allocation of IMF SDRs (Special Drawing Rights).

27 July 2021

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L'impôt global sur les multinationales profitera-t-il à tous les pays?

REVUE DE PRESSSE

Émission Eco d'ici ou d'ailleurs sur Radio France Internationale. L'impôt global sur les multinationales profitera-t-il à tous les pays? Émission présentée par Dominique Baillard avec Heike Buss (OCDE), Nara Monkam (ATAF), Farid Toubal (CEPII) et Grégoire Rota Graziosi (Cerdi-UCA-CNRS, Ferdi).

23 July 2021

What financial choices for Africa in the face of climate change?

CONFERENCE

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19 July 2021

Signature d’un Protocole d’accord entre le Secrétariat Exécutif du G5 Sahel et la Chaire Sahel de la Ferdi

Event

En marge de l’atelier sur la valorisation des résultats de l’étude sur les dépenses de sécurité et leurs effets d’éviction sur les dépenses de développement, Son Excellence Monsieur Mamane Sambo SIDIKOU, Secrétariat Exécutif du G5 Sahel et Son Excellence Monsieur Tertius ZONGO, Directeur de la Ch...

05 July 2021

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In the global race over 5G, liberalisation and regulatory independence are key

Post on the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) by Rabah Arezki, Vianney Dequiedt (Ferdi, Cerdi-UCA), Rachel Yuting Fan and Carlo Maria Rossotto. The authors document the complementarity between telecom liberalisation and regulatory independence in driving a sustained pace of technology adoption.

23 July 2021

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Questions raised by the SDR channeling

By Bruno CABRILLAC

July 28, 2021

Integrating to Transform

By Jaime DE MELO

July 21, 2021

The Commonwealth Universal Vulnerability Index. For a Global Consensus on the Definition and Measurement of Vulnerability.

July 20, 2021

Demand price elasticity of mobile voice communication: A comparative firm level data analysis

By Fayçal SAWADOGO

July 20, 2021

Renforcer le soutien de la communauté internationale en faveur de l’Afrique pour répondre à la crise

By Melchior CLERC, Luc JACOLIN, Thibault LEMAIRE, Nathan VILTARD

July 20, 2021

L’Afrique et l’hétérogénéité de ses coûts de transport et de logistique

By Patrick PLANE

July 12, 2021

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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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