Events

Christophe Angely, Director of External Relations and Financing at FERDI, participated in the discussions of the group dealing with the phase of armed conflict during the war.

Jaime de Melo (Ferdi, University of Geneva) presented a communication "What Role for Regional Economic Communities in the context of AfCFTA?

Alain de Janvry (UC Berkeley, FERDI) intervened to define a development strategy based on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Jacky Mathonnat (Emeritus Professor at the Clermont Auvergne University, Senior Fellow and Head of the Health Economics Program at FERDI) and Marlène Guillon (Associated Professor at the University of Montpellier) presented the results and the health policy implications of their study on the efficiency of district hospitals to the various directorates of the Ministry of Health and Child Care and to the health authorities of the Bindura province.

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.

Visit by Emilie Caldeira (University of Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, CERDI).

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.

Visit by Emilie Caldeira (University of Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, CERDI) and Bertrand Laporte (University of Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, CERDI).