This paper takes advantage of nationally representative cross-sectional household data sets from 1993, 1997, and 1999, to examine changes in poverty in Madagascar. The authors find that poverty in this Indian Ocean country rose from an already high level of 70 percent in 1993, to 73.3 in 1997, before falling to 71.3 in 1999. This pattern of change, which corresponds to the evolution of macroeconomic policy during this period, was restricted primarily...
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2001/07/31
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Document de travail (série numérotée)
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2010/07/01
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Changes in poverty in Madagascar : 1993 - 1999
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depth of poverty