The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

Madagascar faces an array of key challenges in reducing poverty, including major infrastructure deficits, especially in transport, severe climatic events, and tenuous access to markets. While ...

Ravalomanana, 56, plans to double Madagascar’s economic growth rate to 10 percent by 2010 and cut the number of people living in poverty in half. The country attracted $100 million in foreign ...

ANTANANARIVO, MadagascarANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Pope Francis insisted Sunday that poverty isn’t inevitable and that the poor deserve the dignity of work as he visited a rock quarry in ...

In Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in ... Learn more about how UNICEF is working with partners to end child poverty and mitigate its impacts. UNICEF remains steadfast in its commitment ...

Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island ... with 76 percent living in extreme poverty. The country supplies about 80 percent of global vanilla bean stocks and is also one of the world's ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed concerns about the impact of Trump's sweeping tariffs on low-income countries with high poverty rates, such as Madagascar. "The reciprocal ...

True to his reputation as "pope of the poor", Pope Francis begins a visit Saturday to Madagascar, one of the world's most impoverished nations. Catholic worshippers wave Vatican flags as they wait ...

The WWF estimates Madagascar has lost more than 80% of its natural areas, a figure likely to have risen since the pandemic. During that period, a drop in tourism coupled with poverty led to a rise ...