The document summarizes the Africa Development Forum book series, which is sponsored by Agence Française de Développement and the World Bank. The series focuses on issues relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa's economic and social development. It aims to both document specific topics and contribute to policy debates. The books in the series examine a wide range of issues related to development in Africa and provide research that is useful for practitioners, scholars, and students. Some example book topics mentioned include agriculture, infrastructure, gender, youth employment, and urbanization.

1. ABOUT AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT
Agence Française de Développement
is the operator for France’s bilateral
development finance mechanism. It is a
public industrial and commercial institution with the
status of a specialized financial institution. Its action
is in line with the policy set out in France’s Framework
Document for Development Cooperation.
ABOUT WORLD BANK GROUP
The World Bank is a
vital source of financial
and technical assistance
to developing countries around the world.Through its
financial services, its policy advice, and its technical
assistance, the World Bank supports a broad range of
programs aimed at eliminating extreme poverty and
boosting the shared prosperity of the bottom 40 percent
of the population in every developing country.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
BOOK SERIES
The Africa Development Forum book series focuses on
issues of significant relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa’s
social and economic development. Its aim is both to
record specific topics and to contribute to ongoing
local, regional, and global policy debates.The series
provides practitioners, scholars, and students with up-
to-date research results while highlighting the promise,
challenges, and opportunities on the continent.
Books in the series examine a wide range of issues: from
agriculture, manufacturing, and infrastructure to gender,
youth employment, urbanization, and tourism.The series
is sponsored by the Agence Française de Développement
and the World Bank. Manuscripts chosen for publication
represent each institution’s highest quality research
output and have been selected for their relevance to the
development agenda.
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KEY CONTRIBUTORS
Jorge Saba Arbache
Nancy Benjamin
Cecilia Briceño-Garmendia
Frank F. K. Byamugisha
David Canning
Raffaello Cervigni
Vandana Chandra
Iain Christie
Frances Cossar
Bernard Dafflon
Jean-Claude Devèze
Hinh T. Dinh
Alain Durand-Lasserve
Maÿlis Durand-Lasserve
Eneida Fernandes
Ewa Filipiak
Deon Filmer
Vivien Foster
Louise Fox
Sandrine Fréguin-Gresh
Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Tazeen Hasan
Alexandre Kolev
Loren B. Landau
Rikard Liden
Bruno Losch
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
Thierry Madiès
Alexandre Marc
Hannah Messerli
Bradford Mills
Stephen Mogaka
James E. Neumann
Carlo del Ninno
Vincent Palmade
Thierry Paulais
Sangeeta Raja
Aurelia Segatti
Harris Selod
Kenneth M. Strzepek
Louise Twining-Ward
Neelam Verjee
Philippe De Vreyer
Eric Thomas White
Abdo S.Yazbeck
AFRICA
DEVELOPMENT
FORUM BOOK SERIES
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Twenty titles published in five years

2. Books in this series
The Africa Development Forum Series focuses on issues
of significant relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa’s social
and economic development.
Africa’s Demographic Transition
Dividend or Disaster?
This timely volume lays out a range of policy actions that are needed
at the various phases of Africa’s demographic transition and use global
and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked
and what has not. A variety of options are available to speed up the
transition, improve investment in the resulting youth cohort, expand labor markets,
and encourage savings.
Published October 2015 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0489-2 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1KticsA
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa’s
Infrastructure
The Power and Water Sectors
To sustain Africa’s growth and accelerate the eradication of extreme
poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental.This book evaluates
the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion
plans in Africa’s main rivers basins. It also outlines an approach to reduce climate risks
through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process.
Published August 2015 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0466-3 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1K3OkAa
The Challenge of Stability and Security in West
Africa
This book critically examines the challenges of fragility and security
in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It investigates key
drivers of conflict and violence, and the way in which they impact
countries in the subregion.Along with emerging threats and challenges,
these include the challenge of youth inclusion, migration, regional imbalances,
extractives, the fragility of political institutions and managing the competition for power,
security, and land.
Published June 2015 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0464-9 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1W1t5YJ
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
“In any city, the price and quality of housing is so influenced by what
land is available for housing, under what terms, with what services, and
at what cost.This book provides a very rich and detailed understanding
of this in and around Bamako. But its detailed and careful analyses of the
different land delivery channels and stakeholders can serve as guides for (much needed)
comparable analyses in other cities.”
— Professor David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, International Institute
for Environment and Development (IIED);Visiting Professor,
University College London
Published April 2015 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0433-5 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1hjj8WL
Safety Nets in Africa
Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor
and Most Vulnerable
Safety nets can play an important role in protecting the well-being
of poor and vulnerable households in Sub-Saharan Africa.This book
demonstrates with empirical evidence that it is possible to reach the
poorest and most vulnerable people with safety net programs. It also provides lessons
for the effective use of targeting methods to achieve this outcome in the region.
Published January 2015 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0435-9 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1M8EbGA
Tourism in Africa
Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
This volume shows how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth
of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed.With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism
development, the book reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to
initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.
Published June 2014 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0190-7 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1JLWeT7
Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report focuses on how to improve the quality of jobs to meet the aspirations of youth in Sub-
Saharan Africa. It finds that a strong foundation for human capital development can be key to
boosting earnings, arguing for a balanced approach that builds skills and demand for labor.
Published January 2014 | ISBN: 978-1-4648-0107-5 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1cWoqhW
Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
“This book provides an in-depth examination of the functioning of urban labor markets in Sub-
Saharan Africa, looking in particular at the crucial question of informality. Relying on detailed
microeconomic data from several French-speaking urban centers, it makes an innovative and
fundamental contribution to the understanding of development in Africa.”
— François Bourguignon, Director, Paris School of Economics
Published June 2013 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9781-7 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1KQxCqY
Enterprising Women
Expanding Economic Opportunities in Africa
Using data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Enterprising Women informs policy makers
and practitioners on ways to expand women’s economic opportunities. It focuses on four areas
that help explain gender differences in entrepreneurial activities and where gender gaps persist:
property rights, access to finance, human capital, and political voice.
Published June 2013 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9703-9 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1IpiMo7
Securing Africa’s Land for Shared Prosperity
A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments
“This book marks an important milestone for improving land governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. It
deserves support from all those involved in—and the well-wishers of—African development.”
— Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President; Founder,The Carter Center; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Published June 2013 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9810-4 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1eSQutD
The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal
For the past two decades, experiments in decentralization and federalization have been
developing in Africa,Asia, and the formerly communist states of Eastern Europe. Many of the
powers previously in the hands of the central government or its deconcentrated structures
have been transferred to lower government layers.This volume offers a new policy-oriented
implementation model, applied systematically in parallel in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal and
compares similar issues based on the same blueprint.
Published December 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9613-1 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1eSQpGm
Empowering Women
Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
Empowering Women provides compelling evidence from 47 Sub-Saharan African countries that
gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed—in terms of substance,
enforcement, awareness, and access—if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan
Africa are to continue to expand.A companion book to Enterprising Women.
Published October 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9533-2 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1SO0UgM
Financing Africa’s Cities
The Imperative of Local Investment
This book addresses the issue of financing urban growth in Africa—which has the highest urban
growth rate on the planet—over the next decades.The authors aim to clarify the debates and to
enlighten the choices of African decision makers at both the local and national levels while also offer-
ing several operational avenues to bolster and modernize the financing that cities urgently require.
Published July 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9455-7 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1eSQcD8
Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited
Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World
Based on an in-depth, seven-country study that surveyed 8,000 rural households,
this book addresses the unique situation of countries that remain deeply engaged
in agriculture, and it proposes a set of policy options that could facilitate the
process of rural change.
Published June 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9512-7 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1dZ1wNI
Light Manufacturing in Africa
Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs
This volume examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-
Saharan Africa’s need for structural transformation and productive job creation,
given the region’s potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an
abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries.
Published February 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-8961-4 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1HIL7Vb
The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa
Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
This volume provides a detailed description and analysis of: the characteristics and
functioning of informal sector firms, the causes of the pervasiveness of these firms,
the relations between formal and informal firms, the consequences of informality
for economic development, and appropriate policy responses.
Published February 2012 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-9537-0 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1Ms04za
Contemporary Migration to South Africa
A Regional Development Issue
This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are
more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are
devoted almost exclusively to border control and policing, paying only lip service to
local and regional developmental strategies.This volume takes a different approach
from scholars who are convinced that empirically based policy making stands a better chance of
succeeding than untested preconceptions that risk reproducing recipes that have failed elsewhere.
Published August 2011 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-8767-2 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1HsQz1l
Challenges for African Agriculture
What is the future for Sub-Saharan African farms? What role can they play in
the development of the subcontinent? This book presents the key demographic,
economic, and environmental challenges for agriculture in Africa and proposes
courses of action for Africa to be successful in its agricultural transitions.
Published October 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-8481-7 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1Jg0PrY
Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Market
Women’s earnings are a fraction of men’s earnings in several African countries. It is
tempting to conclude that this wage gap is a sign of discrimination against women
in the labor market. But new datasets show that the gap is the result of multiple
factors, including access to education and credit, cultural values and household
duties, and, above all, labor market conditions.
Published August 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-8066-6 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1dYShwY
Africa’s Infrastructure
A Time for Transformation
Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa’s prosperity.This volume
is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret
the full extent of the challenges in developing Sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure
sectors.As a result, this volume represents the most comprehensive reference available on
infrastructure in the region.
Published December 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8213-8041-3 | Download here: http://bit.ly/1MrZcdO