"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 … spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a …

"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 …

"Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … household level income or consumption. The results suggest that a useful way forward might be to combine fine geographic … Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to develop tools for the analysis of poverty and income distribution …