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Madagascar

COPYCATTING

French oil major Total has again approached Madagascar's government to demand compensation for the assets nationalized in 1975. In December [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo last month is insisting that the government must privatize the state-owned banks [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

FCR DRAGGING ITS FEET

The company France Cable et Radio (a subsidiary of France Telecom) and holder of 34 percent of the capital of [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1998

FRENCHMAN IN MALAGASY CULTURE

The post taken up recently at Madagascar's cultural centre in [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1998

EUROPEANS DISUNITED

According to sources close to Madagascar's deputy foreign minister Herizo [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1998

COME BACK LATER FOR THE MONEY

The World Bank / International Monetary Fund joint mission which went to Antananarivo from February 6 to 20 signed no [...]

Subscribers only 28.02.1998

On Madagascar, implementation of the economic reform programme passes by firm spoonfeeding at all stages of local institutions (presidency, prime minister's office, economic ministries, etc) by International Monetary Fund and World Bank representatives. Objective: to neutralize all political interference by [.

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

WORLD BANK LAYS MARKER BUOYS

The World Bank has outlined its conditions for granting Madagascar a second structural adjustment credit line. In a letter of [...]

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

FRANCISQUE RAVONY

Ex-prime minister Francisque Ravony has been picked as chairman of [...]

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

IMPEACHMENT MOTION FALLS

A motion to impeach head of state Didier Ratsiraka tabled in Madagascar's national assembly by 49 opposition MPs has failed [...]

Subscribers only 07.02.1998

A FAIRLY FREQUENT FRAUD

From his mission to Antananarivo at the end of 1997 (ION N° 797), an official of International Monetary Fund, Christophe [...]

Subscribers only 07.02.1998

NORBERT RAZANAKOTO

The Malagasy government has designated a successor for Thierry Rajaona, who was dismissed in November as executive secretary of the [...]

Subscribers only 07.02.1998

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FISCAL FIDDLING

After the International Monetary Fund's critical evaluation in 1995 of Malagasy finance administration had little effect, the Fund returned to the charge by sending a mission to Antananarivo from December 5 to 19, 1997. Mission head Christophe Grandcolas has given [.

Subscribers only 31.01.1998

FISCALITY LOCKED UP

Created last year to ensure the recovery, administration and control of the taxation of the 1,500 largest enterprises of the [...]

Subscribers only 31.01.1998

IMPEACHMENT VERSUS REFERENDUM

The 64 MPs who tabled a motion of impeachment against head of state Didier Ratsiraka on January 28 succeeded in [...]

Subscribers only 31.01.1998

RICHARD FIENENA

The new secretary general on the staff of Horace Constant, minister for the private sector and privatization, is Richard Fienena [...]

Subscribers only 24.01.1998

CADIC GOMBERT EVERYWHERE

The consultants Cadic Gombert, based in Paris and a subsidiary of the company Apreci Consultants, distribute in France and Belgium [...]

Subscribers only 17.01.1998

FINANCE LAW NEEDS FIXING ALREADY

On mission in Washington during the second fortnight of December, Madagascar's deputy prime minister (for finance and the economy) Tantely [...]

Subscribers only 17.01.1998

TANNOURI IN APPEAL COURT

Anthony Gabriel Tannouri, a French businessman of Lebanese origin who was sentenced by a French court to three years (with [...]

Subscribers only 17.01.1998

REFINERY BREAKS DOWN AGAIN

Mechanical breakdown has halted Tamatave refinery, owned by the state company Solima, for a bit more than a week. In [...]

Subscribers only 10.01.1998

CANNABIS BOOM

Madagascar's Service Central des Stupéfiants (SCS) has evaluated last year production of rongony (Malagasy marijuana) at one thousand tons, compared [...]

Subscribers only 10.01.1998

FOOLING THE OPPOSITION

Head of state Didier Ratsiraka was due to announce, late this week, the date for the constitutional referendum. It is [...]

Subscribers only 10.01.1998

ALAIN ANDRIAMISEZA

The national chairman of MCDM resigned his position as adviser [...]

Subscribers only 10.01.1998

QUARRELLING OVER LOCUSTS

An official of Rhone Poulenc Agro, the French firm which markets the insecticide Adonis, G. Bruge, showed anxiety in correspondence [...]

Subscribers only 03.01.1998

WET MATCHES

The plan to award a foreign company a concession to operate Reseau National des Chemins de Fer Malagasy (RNCFM) has [...]

Subscribers only 03.01.1998

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Madagascar

COPYCATTING

MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

FCR DRAGGING ITS FEET

FRENCHMAN IN MALAGASY CULTURE

EUROPEANS DISUNITED

COME BACK LATER FOR THE MONEY

Spotlight
WORLD BANK SECRETS

WORLD BANK LAYS MARKER BUOYS

FRANCISQUE RAVONY

IMPEACHMENT MOTION FALLS

A FAIRLY FREQUENT FRAUD

NORBERT RAZANAKOTO

Spotlight
FISCAL FIDDLING

FISCALITY LOCKED UP

IMPEACHMENT VERSUS REFERENDUM

RICHARD FIENENA

CADIC GOMBERT EVERYWHERE

FINANCE LAW NEEDS FIXING ALREADY

TANNOURI IN APPEAL COURT

REFINERY BREAKS DOWN AGAIN

CANNABIS BOOM

FOOLING THE OPPOSITION

ALAIN ANDRIAMISEZA

QUARRELLING OVER LOCUSTS

WET MATCHES

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Madagascar

COPYCATTING

MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

FCR DRAGGING ITS FEET

FRENCHMAN IN MALAGASY CULTURE

EUROPEANS DISUNITED

COME BACK LATER FOR THE MONEY

Spotlight WORLD BANK SECRETS

WORLD BANK LAYS MARKER BUOYS

FRANCISQUE RAVONY

IMPEACHMENT MOTION FALLS

A FAIRLY FREQUENT FRAUD

NORBERT RAZANAKOTO

Spotlight FISCAL FIDDLING

FISCALITY LOCKED UP

IMPEACHMENT VERSUS REFERENDUM

RICHARD FIENENA

CADIC GOMBERT EVERYWHERE

FINANCE LAW NEEDS FIXING ALREADY

TANNOURI IN APPEAL COURT

REFINERY BREAKS DOWN AGAIN

CANNABIS BOOM

FOOLING THE OPPOSITION

ALAIN ANDRIAMISEZA

QUARRELLING OVER LOCUSTS

WET MATCHES

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