Madagascar

LINE OF CREDIT FOR BTM BANK

The African Development Fund (ADF), which is part of the African Development Bank group, is considering granting a US$21 million [...]

The African Development Bank, in a recent document, judges the [...]

European Development Fund is to make ECU 16.4 million (US$17.7 [...]

PROBLEM OF A LOAN

According to a former counsellor to the head of state, Didier Ratsiraka, Madagascar's new political leaders may have tried to [...]

ANDRE TERRAZZONI

The long-term mission on decentralisation in Madagascar headed by the French former high civil servant André Terrazzoni on behalf of [...]

A NEW QUARREL OVER TELECOMS

Madagascar's government wants to renegotiate terms for privatising the island's telecommunications system. The original project provided for setting up a [...]

Two International Committee of the Red Cross delegates, one a [...]

MICHEL SIMEON

The economic counsellor of the European Community's delegation in Nairobi [...]

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THE OUTSTANDING EXTERNAL DEBT

Although the World Bank sets the value of international fund donors' credits made available to Madagascar at one billion US dollars, in fact the state's shortage of foreign currency is expected to remain a major short- and medium-term problem.

FRENCH AID IN 1993

French bilateral aid this year should amount to FFr. 920.4 million, the equivalent of 4.9 percent of Madagascar's GDP and [...]

RAZANAMASY'S WHITE BOOK

In the White Book which former prime minister Guy Razanamasy has written covering the period (August 1991 to August 1993) [...]

The French cooperation ministry's recently authorised budget for 1994 covers [...]

THE HEAVY TASK OF DECENTRALISATION

Decentralisation is one of the central elements of the new Madagascar government's political and economic philosophy. Their thinking has been [...]

RENEWED INTEREST IN TEXTILES

About half a dozen French clothing manufacturers, including several leading companies, are currently studying the possibility of setting up a [...]

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TIMETABLE FOR AN ECONOMIC RELAUNCH

Madagascar's discussions with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will doubtless be far more delicate than that government likes to admit and it seems extremely unlikely that structural adjustment credits can be released before the second half [.

The minister for industrial promotion and tourism, Herizo Razafimahaleo, took [...]

FRANCISQUE RAVONY

Madagascar's prime minister is expected to carry out an official [...]

FIRST SNARL-UPS

Prime minister Francisque Ravony last week sent for France's former prefect, Andre Terrazzoni, who is currently carrying out a mission [...]

MICHEL ROUSSIN

France's cooperation minister was due to arrive in Madagascar this [...]