Events

Séminaire OCDE-CERDI-FERDI sur la présentation du rapport OCDE 2020 sur le financement multilatéral du développement.

The members of the MRIP platform (DG Treasury, DGFIP, AFD, Expertise France, Ferdi) invited the ICTD represented by Wilson Prichard to present the African Property Tax Initiative (APTI) on 10 December 2020. (Report in French)

Organised by Worls Bank, United Nations, and International Economics Consulting Ltd. Jaime de Melo (univ. of Geneva FERDIi) discussed on lessons learned from other island economies.

The Sahel Chair of FERDI presented to the G5 Sahel Permanent Secretariat the final version of its study on security spending and its crowding-out effects on development spending in the G5 Sahel countries.

Webinaire organisé par la fondation Prospective et innovation. Avec la participation de Patrick Guillaumont (Ferdi).

Jaime de Melo discussed avenues for greater resilience in Mauritius.

Seminar organized as part of the Banque de France - FERDI partnership. Presentation of the paper "Foreign direct investment and domestic private investment in sub-Saharan African countries: Crowding-in or out?"

Jaime de Melo (FERDI , University of Geneva) was a panelist.

On 5 November, 2020 UNU-WIDER and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining and Metals organised a workshop on extractives and domestic revenue mobilisation. Yannick Bouterige (FERDI) presented the results of a joint Cerdi-NRGI-IISD-Ferdi study of the tax gap on 20 gold mines in Africa.

The 14th AFD International Research Conference on Development, "The Visible Hand: Development Banks in Transition" took place in the framework of the Finance in Common Summit, the first global meeting of all public development banks.

Webinaire du Fonds monétaire international et de la Banque de France. Patrick Guillaumont, Président de la Ferdi a modéré la table ronde portant sur l’Afrique subsaharienne face à la pandémie de Covid-19.

OECD organised a series of live virtual talks on multilateral development finance. FERDi was a partner of the event.

On the road to the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UN LDC5). Two webinars organized by UN-OHRLLS, OECD and FERDI. OCT. 21 & 23, 2020. 3:00 PM (Paris time)

Papier co-écrit par Florian Léon (Ferdi) et Laurent Weill (EM-Strasbourg).

A FERDI's webinar co-organised with the Ecobank Academy. Speakers : Daniel Ona Ondo, Michel-Cyr Djiena Wembou, Cheikh Travaly, Mustapha Mahamat and Patrick Plane.