Mada Articles
Piracy,
patronage & political economy: Captain Kidd and the East India Trade by
David Wilson. IJMH. 2015.
Clean people, unclean people: the essentialisation of
‘slaves’ among the southern Betsileo of Madagascar by Denis
Regnier. Social Anthropology. May 2015.
A Cursed Land:Droughts. Bandits. Locusts. Inside the
boom and bust of a Madagascar frontier town. by Aaron Ross
Madagascar's Election: A Nervous Wait by
A.R. Belobaka. The Economist. 30 Dec 2013. The release of early returns
has set off a nasty round of sniping between the two camps. The preliminary
results show Mr Rajaonarimampianina with a small but probably decisive
lead.
Hope in horizon for Madagascar as
reconciliation talks end in Dar es Salaam by John
Kulekana. Progress is being made during talks between Madagascar
president Andry Rajoelina and President Jakaya Kikwete (he's mediating on part of
the SADC). This mediation is necessary after a 2009 coup in which the
former president Ravolomanana was outsted.
Film outlines effects of illegal
logging on lemurs by Danielle Muoio. The Chronicle.
27 Nov 2012. This film is evidently what exposed Gibson's use of illegal
rosewood on their (your) guitars. Gibson eventually paid $300K
in fines. Mark your calendars, the expose film premieres 18 December at
8PM on Animal Planet.
Cyclone
Preparations Threatened. All Africa News. 23 Nov 2012. A $6.1
million funding shortfall is jeopardizing the World Food Programme's (WFP)
practice of pre-positioning relief supplies in manyareas vulnerable to
cyclones. The practice results in quicker response times to
Madagascar's clockwork-like natural disasters.
Vanilla to
Taste Even Sweeter . All Africa News. 23 Nov 2012. Vanilla
producers in Madagascar are taking steps to create a Fairtrade network on
the island. Farmers from all ten Fairtrade organisations met for the
second time setting out a concrete action plan.
Madagascar Oil sees crude flowing from island soon Reuters.
30 Oct 2012. If they do end up having a lot of oil, they could
do well to get an intelligent economic advisor in place. I might suggest
someone with experience like Dr. Robert Looney, a former economic advisor to Iran. Typically newly resource rich states focus on
avoiding Dutch Disease as Nigeria did during their 1970's oil boom (during the
last three decades of the 20th century they experienced a $300 billion
windfall). In focusing on this, though, they can neglect other important
economic factors such as managing RER (real exchange rate) and inflation.
Sage advice and more information can be found on this topic in Okongo-Iweala's
excellent 2008 IMF article Nigeria's Shot at Redemption.
There are extensive notes on the article here.
CRS Report on Madagascar's Political Crisis by Lauren
Ploch and Nicolas Cook. 18 June 2012.
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