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Export Led Growth, Pro-Poor or Not? Evidence from Madagascar's Textile and Apparel Industry

Nicita, Alessandro - 2016

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 …

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The Implementation of Industrial Parks : Some Lessons Learned in India

Saleman, Yannick - 2017

Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This...

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Job Accessibility and Urban Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Iimi, Atsushi - 2019

connectivity on access to jobs, especially focusing on wages. Using data from Antananarivo, Madagascar, it is shown that the wages …

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Location, Location, Location Revisited : Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar

Iimi, Atsushi - 2019

land prices and locational characteristics using data from Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. It is found that the …

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The Use of Detailed Statistical Data in Customs Reform : the Case of Madagascar

Chalendard, Cyril Romain - 2017

implemented in Madagascar, this method has helped to reveal probable fraud cases in the present context of customs reform …

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Addressing Household Air Pollution : A Case Study in Rural Madagascar

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

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 …

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Improving Nutritional Status Through Behavioral Change : Lessons from Madagascar

Galasso, Emanuela - 2017

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...

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Learning Through Monitoring : Lessons from a Large-Scale Nutrition Program in Madagascar

Galasso, Emanuela - 2016

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

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The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years on

Cadot, Olivier - 2016

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 …

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Optimal Locational Choice for Agrobusinesses in Madagascar : An Application of Spatial Autoregressive Tobit Regression

Iimi, Atsushi - 2018

agglomeration of new agrobusinesses in Madagascar. The findings show that market accessibility and agglomeration economies are …

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