"This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers …, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to … at the regional level. After taking into account the reduction in Madagascar's monopoly power on the world vanilla market …

"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low … labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of …