collected in a small region of Madagascar with enormous, yet plausibly exogenous, variation in transport cost. A road that …

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 textile and …

The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar …

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 …

detailed administered data from a large-scale, community-based nutrition program in Madagascar to argue that this data can be …

, Madagascar, taking advantage of a recent user survey of thousands of people. It finds that the demand for informal public …

communities in three developing countries: Ecuador, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Communities are found to vary markedly from one …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on …

Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households … monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations …