Madagascar: Recent Economic Developments and Selected Issues

November 11, 1997

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Madagascar: Recent Economic Developments and Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This paper describes economic developments in Madagascar during the 1990s. The paper highlights that Madagascar achieved financial stabilization in 1996 owing to the stepwise implementation of sweeping reforms that started in 1994 with the establishment of an interbank foreign exchange market. The paper focuses on selected aspects of Madagascar’s medium-term economic strategy, deals with poverty issues in Madagascar, and provides an analysis of the Malagasy civil service and a strategy for its reform. The paper also examines Madagascar’s trade regime and export processing zone.

Subject: Civil service, Civil service reform, Commercial banks, External debt, Labor, Poverty, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, Civil service, Civil service reform, CR, EPZ, EPZ enterprise, Export processing zone regime, Imports to Madagascar, ISCR, Liberalized import system, Madagascar, Pay, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariff, Tariff rate, Tariffs

Publication Details

Pages:

125
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/106
Stock No:

1MDGEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451825220
ISSN:

1934-7685

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