Pierre Beaucoral

Pierre Beaucoral

PhD Candidate

CERDI UCA CNRS IRD

Biography

This is the official website of Pierre Beaucoral, a PhD student specializing in development economics at CERDI. My research focuses on climate finance, development finance, and aid allocation and effectiveness in relation to environmental issues.

Interests
  • Development economics
  • Environment
  • Development finance
Education
  • PhD in Climate finance, 2023

    Clermont Auvergne University

  • Master degree in development economics, with honours, 2021

    Clermont Auvergne University

  • Bachelor degree in development economics, with honours, 2018

    Clermont Auvergne University

Skills

Technical
Econometrics
Python
R
Hobbies
Music
Sports
Hiking

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
CERDI CNRS UCA IRD
PhD student
October 2023 – Present Clermont-Ferrand

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing
  • Modelling
  • Teaching
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdi
Research assistant
October 2022 – September 2023 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Development economics, international development finance.

Accomplish­ments

Master degree in development economics
Bachelor in economics

Teachings

Teaching experiences

R programming: Introduction to R for statistical analysis, Economic Policy Management (GPE) training programme, master level, Automn 2024.

Projects

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Under the Green Canopy: bringing up to date climate finance determinants analysis with BERT
Climate finance is critical for addressing the multifaceted challenges of climate change, encompassing mitigation, adaptation, and environmental sustainability. This study aims to analyze the determinants of climate finance allocation across these dimensions and accurately estimate climate finance flows using an advanced machine learning approach. Climate Finance BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is employed to classify development finance projects, distinguishing those that contribute to climate mitigation, adaptation, and environmental objectives. By examining a comprehensive dataset of development finance projects, this study identifies key factors influencing the allocation of climate finance. This work reveals significant patterns in climate finance distribution. This research contributes to the growing field of climate finance by offering a robust analytical framework for assessing the determinants of climate finance and proposing a scalable solution for monitoring financial flows aimed at addressing climate change in its entirety. The insights gained have important implications for policymakers and stakeholders striving to optimize the allocation of climate finance to support global sustainability and resilience goals.
Under the Green Canopy: bringing up to date climate finance determinants analysis with BERT
Cracking the Code: Enhancing Development Project Classification with NLP on OECD CRS data.
Motivations Categorising development projects is crucial for understanding donors’ aid strategies, recipients’ priorities, and on-the-ground actions. In this area, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) dataset is a reference data source.
Cracking the Code: Enhancing Development Project Classification with NLP on OECD CRS data.
Millions for billions: Accelerating African entrepreneurial emergence for accelerated, sustainable and job-rich growth
Publication from Jean-Michel Severino (https://ferdi.fr/biographies/jean-michel-severino) where I provided an appendix aiming to reveal the actual support provided by development finance institutions to the African private sector. The article below argues for the need to strongly accelerate public involvement in support of entrepreneurial emergence in poor and fragile countries. After mentioning the economic and employment issue, it explains how this priority has long disappeared from the international agenda as well as from domestic public policies, particularly in Africa. Efforts to promote the private sector have in practice focused on foreign direct investment and the largest companies. Middle- and emerging income countries, and a limited number of sectors and financial instruments, such as debt, have been valued. The article evokes the gradual change of perception on this subject from the beginning of the century and the emergence of new so- called impact actors focused particularly on SMEs in poor countries, accompanied by some public private sector financing institutions (DFIs), development agencies or foundations..
Millions for billions: Accelerating African entrepreneurial emergence for accelerated, sustainable and job-rich growth

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Contact

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  • pierre.beaucoral@uca.fr
  • 26 Léon Blum Avenue, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes 63000
  • Floor 4
  • Monday till friday 10:00 to 18:00
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