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Madagascar
World Bank's lobbying crucial to mining sector reform

World Bank President David Malpass and Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina at the Iavoloha presidential palace in Antananarivo, on 29 April 2019. © Mamyrael/AFP

The cabinet has approved a new mining code, the reopening of the mining register and the resumption of gold exports. World Bank lobbying has been a significant factor in those decisions, the institution having made its forthcoming €200m budgetary aid conditional on the sector's reform. [...]

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