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National poverty lines reflect local perceptions of the level and composition of consumption or income needed to be non-poor. The perceived boundary between poor and non-poor typically rises with the average income of a country and thus does not provide a uniform measure for comparing poverty rates across countries.
In 2000, Madagascar embarked on the preparation of a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) under the Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) Initiative. The boards of the IMF and of the World Bank concurred in December 2000 that the country was eligible under the HIPC Initiative, and Madagascar reached the decision point for debt relief .
The island country of Madagascar remains plagued by political and economic instability, poverty, and food insecurity.While the country engaged in an ambitious transformation program designed to improve social, economic, and governance indicators between 2002 and 2008, a 2009 political crisis has thrown these improvements off-course.
Madagascar: Eastern Africa: Low income 42.6 2012 42.65 2013 Maldives: Southern Asia: Upper middle income 29.3 2019 29.29 2020 Mexico: Central America: Upper middle income 43.5 2022 44.01 2022 40.0 2022 Marshall Islands: Micronesia: Upper middle income 35.5 2019 35.48 2020 North Macedonia: Southern Europe: Upper middle income 33.5
Madagascar, [a] officially the Republic of Madagascar, [b] is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's fourth largest island (after Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo), the second-largest island country (after Indonesia), and the 46th largest country overall. [14]
Madagascar is a poor country, [28] and climate change adaptation is costly. [ 3 ] [ 29 ] Protecting the country's unique ecosystems is considered a central adaptation strategy. [ 3 ] Proposed measures using conservation in Madagascar include expanding protected areas and generating income by selling carbon offsets for reducing emissions from ...
In 2007, residents of Jale, a tiny Albanian beach hamlet on the Ionian Sea, found themselves in the path of a coastal cleanup effort backed by a $17.5 million loan from the World Bank. More than a dozen poor families lived in Jale, many in homes with add-ons and extra floors they rented to vacationers.
Demographics of Madagascar, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; number of inhabitants in millions. Population density of Madagascar as of 2004. The problem with population estimation in Madagascar is that data is very old and limited. The last population census was carried out in 1993, after an initial 1975 census.