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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rising poverty means that families can no longer ... Under Ravalomanana, Madagascar had been able to benefit from the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), giving it duty-free and quota ...

Press Release - In Madagascar's Great South, communities are fighting drought and restoring degraded lands through the World Bank-supported MIONJO project. Over 1,500 hectares of dunes have been ...

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 recent years, the term "eldest daughter syndrome" has gained traction on social media, as many firstborn daughters share ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - Poverty, poor infrastructure and natural weather variability are bigger contributors to Madagascar's food crisis than climate change, according to a study released on Thursday by ...

“Already, roughly 9 out of 10 people in Madagascar live below the global poverty line, [ii] and more than half of children are chronically malnourished. [ii] This country is just not prepared for ...

The UK's International Climate Finance (ICF) supports mangrove conservation to reduce the impacts of climate change, protect ...

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 ...