Events

On September 10, the Permanent Secretary of the G5 Sahel, Mr Maman Sambo Sidikou, and the Director of the Sahel Chair, Mr Tertius Zongo, signed an agreement to carry out a study on security spending and its crowding-out effects on the financing of development spending in the G5 Sahel countries.

Patrick Plane (CNRS, CERDI- Clermont Auvergne University, FERDI) presented the Sustainable Competitiveness Observatory at the Policy Center for the New South.

Jaime de Melo (University of Geneva, FERDI) was invited to comment a draft paper by Selim Raihan.

This meeting is the first under on this topic under the Convention signed, late 2018, between the CEMAC Commission and the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI).

This feasibility study carried out by Francesca Marchetta (CERDI-Université Clermont Auvergne) and Tom Dilly (I&P) is led by FERDI.

Joël Cariolle (FERDI) presented his paper "Telecommunications Submarine Cable deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa".

IDDRI and FERDI, who work together in the Initiative for Development and Global Governance (IDGM), have joined forces to influence the G7 on reducing global inequality.

FERDI awarded for the quality of the documents distributed.

Patrick Guillaumont and Laurent Wagner (FERDI) were invited to discuss the need to measure and to take into account vulnerabilities in the allocation formulas for sustainable development.

Christophe Angely (Ferdi) participated in this seminar as a representative of the Sahel Chair to discuss and exchange on this theme.

A presentation by Axel Gastambide and Matthieu Boussichas (FERDI).

Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet (Berkeley, Ferdi) presented a communication on the theme of agricultural modernization and value chains.

Speech by Patrick Guillaumont about international aid allocation.

Laurent Wagner and Sosso Feindouno (FERDI), presented the vulnerability indicators developed by FERDI.

Laurent Wagner (FERDI) presented the paper "Import Uncertainty and Export Dynamics" co-written with Mariana Vijil (World Bank), and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael (IMF).