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Madagascar

MAISON DE MALAGASY IN PARIS

A Maison de Madagascar will open its doors in Paris sometime during January at 40 Rue du Général Foy, in [...]

Subscribers only 03.01.1998

CFD SUBSIDY FOR FISHERIES

The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) has awarded a complementary subsidy of FFr.2.5 million to finance bringing up to [...]

Subscribers only 20.12.1997

SOFITRANS IN A TERRIBLE STATE

Société Financière pour le Développement des Transports et du Tourisme (SOFITRANS), a state-owned firm specialized in catering for aircraft and [...]

Subscribers only 13.12.1997

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TSARS OF PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank has bumped prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo up to a sort of "Privatization Tsar" after noting, in a confidential Bank report of October 9, there was a total "absence of support at the highest level of the executive" [...]

Subscribers only 06.12.1997

LIBERALIZATION IN THE MINES

Worked out in April 1997 between OMNIS and the World Bank, the programme for liberalization of Madagascar's mining sector should [...]

Subscribers only 06.12.1997

MARY CHINERY-HESSE

The deputy director general of the Geneva-based International Labour Organization [...]

Subscribers only 06.12.1997

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

Madagascar's external debt, which has been on a constant upward spiral since 1990, is nowhere near being wrapped up. The [...]

Subscribers only 29.11.1997

SOLIMA BUILDING BRICKS

Madagascar's state-owned petroleum utility Solima is envisaging getting into an investment of 4 billion Malagasy francs (about FFr.5 million) in [...]

Subscribers only 29.11.1997

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UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE

One year after his return to power, head of state Didier Ratsiraka has failed to re-emerge as the strong man awaited to put some law and order in daily life. Handicapped by illness (his eyesight is so poor he needed [.

Subscribers only 22.11.1997

CHRISTOPHE DURAND

A good-looking man in his fifties, Christophe Durand landed on Madagascar to do business about two years ago in the [...]

Subscribers only 22.11.1997

JONASY JOELSON

The special adviser to prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo, who was [...]

Subscribers only 22.11.1997

SMB AID

International Development Association (the World Bank concessional lending affiliate) has [...]

Subscribers only 22.11.1997

ON FENCE-SITTING

Madagascar's banks are sitting on a strange fence: although they have sizeable liquid cash, they are granting fewer and fewer [...]

Subscribers only 15.11.1997

DIEGO DIGS IN

Ex-president Albert Zafy and his supporters in the radical opposition, including retired army general Jean Rakotoharison, turned up the pressure [...]

Subscribers only 15.11.1997

PRIVATIZATION PLAN FOR SOLIMA

The strategy for privatizing Madagascar's petroleum utility Solima has just [...]

Subscribers only 15.11.1997

TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

An International Monetary Fund and World Bank joint delegation visit to Antananarivo (October 15 to November 7) is not expected [...]

Subscribers only 08.11.1997

SOUL SEARCHING

The chairman of MCDM, Alain Andriamiseza, one of the special permanent advisers for legal affairs to prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo, [...]

Subscribers only 08.11.1997

THIERRY RAJAONA

The executive secretary of Madagascar's technical secretariat for privatization, Thierry [...]

Subscribers only 08.11.1997

RATSIRAKA'S BODYGUARD

French military instructors are training a new close-protection guard for [...]

Subscribers only 08.11.1997

TWO HOTEL PROJECTS

French financier Michel Louvet is putting up two small hotels, one in Antananarivo (due to be completed by the end [...]

Subscribers only 01.11.1997

THIERRY RAJAONA

The executive secretary of Madagascar's technical secretariat for privatization, Thierry Rajaona, is believed to be on the point of being [...]

Subscribers only 01.11.1997

HONEYMOON BETWEEN MADAGASCAR'S SOLIMA AND GLENCORE

Can the Toamasina refinery get a new lease on life, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

BRETTON WOODS DUNCES

Bretton Woods institutions officials are anxiously wondering whether Malagasy government officials are capable, or even desirous, of respecting the promises [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

GLENCORE PROJECTS

Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

ANTOINE POUILLIEUTE

Caisse Française de Développement director general Antoine Pouillieute will go to Madagascar from October 23 to 26 to sign several [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

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Madagascar

MAISON DE MALAGASY IN PARIS

CFD SUBSIDY FOR FISHERIES

SOFITRANS IN A TERRIBLE STATE

Spotlight
TSARS OF PRIVATIZATION

LIBERALIZATION IN THE MINES

MARY CHINERY-HESSE

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

SOLIMA BUILDING BRICKS

Spotlight
UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE

CHRISTOPHE DURAND

JONASY JOELSON

SMB AID

ON FENCE-SITTING

DIEGO DIGS IN

PRIVATIZATION PLAN FOR SOLIMA

TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

SOUL SEARCHING

THIERRY RAJAONA

RATSIRAKA'S BODYGUARD

TWO HOTEL PROJECTS

THIERRY RAJAONA

HONEYMOON BETWEEN MADAGASCAR'S SOLIMA AND GLENCORE

BRETTON WOODS DUNCES

GLENCORE PROJECTS

ANTOINE POUILLIEUTE

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Madagascar

MAISON DE MALAGASY IN PARIS

CFD SUBSIDY FOR FISHERIES

SOFITRANS IN A TERRIBLE STATE

Spotlight TSARS OF PRIVATIZATION

LIBERALIZATION IN THE MINES

MARY CHINERY-HESSE

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

SOLIMA BUILDING BRICKS

Spotlight UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE

CHRISTOPHE DURAND

JONASY JOELSON

SMB AID

ON FENCE-SITTING

DIEGO DIGS IN

PRIVATIZATION PLAN FOR SOLIMA

TAKING A CLOSE LOOK

SOUL SEARCHING

THIERRY RAJAONA

RATSIRAKA'S BODYGUARD

TWO HOTEL PROJECTS

THIERRY RAJAONA

HONEYMOON BETWEEN MADAGASCAR'S SOLIMA AND GLENCORE

BRETTON WOODS DUNCES

GLENCORE PROJECTS

ANTOINE POUILLIEUTE

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TSARS OF PRIVATIZATION

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UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE