Madagascar Poverty and Equity Assessment, February 2024: Navigating Two Decades of High Poverty and Charting a Course for Change in Madagascar

doi:https://doi.org/10.1596/41087

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Madagascar Poverty and Equity Assessment, February 2024: Navigating Two Decades of High Poverty and Charting a Course for Change in Madagascar

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-20T20:42:00Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-20T20:42:00Z
dc.date.issued	2024-02-20
dc.description.abstract	This report provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in the decade 2012- 2022. It finds that at the national level monetary poverty essentially stagnated while urban poverty, admittedly a much smaller in absolute and relative terms, dramatically increased. In 2022, monetary poverty affected about 75 percent of the population, a share slightly above the 73 percent in 2012. Rural poverty remained roughly unchanged at about 80 percent of the rural population, but urban poverty increased from 42 to 56 percent over the decade. The increase in poverty was especially dramatic in secondary cities, where poverty increased from 46 to 61 percent (chapter 1). A closer look at the drivers of poverty reveals that the trends of the last decade are explained by market and governance failures, climatic shocks and the COVID pandemic. Structurally, stubbornly high rural poverty is the legacy of long-term infrastructure underinvestment, isolation, and low internal demand (World Bank Group, 2022). But since 2013, this structural failure to launch has also affected urban employment and living conditions as private investment has persistently declined and competition was suffocated by special interests. Moreover, the COVID pandemic, which caused an exceedingly long border closure and wiped out tourism revenues until mid-2022, and a repeated string of cyclones wreaked havoc on the service economy, destroying as many as a quarter of jobs and slashing urban incomes (chapter 3). About three-quarters of the population suffers from food insecurity, and this share has remained broadly unchanged for a decade or more. Most households, especially in rural areas, lack access to reliable electricity, safe water, or adequate sanitation. Access to healthcare is inadequate while high fertility, teenage pregnancy (about one-third of girls 15-19 is a mother already) and low education completion (only about half of all children complete primary school) erode future human capital (chapter 4). Climate resilience is a cross-cutting challenge. Madagascar is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, heavy rains, droughts, and heatwaves (chapter 5).	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099021424172020915/P17796818b70320641878f166fa034723ca
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/41087
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41087
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.subject	POVERTY
dc.subject	MODEST ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	URBAN POVERTY
dc.subject	LOW HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	CHILD MARRIAGE
dc.title	Madagascar Poverty and Equity Assessment, February 2024	en
dc.title.subtitle	Navigating Two Decades of High Poverty and Charting a Course for Change in Madagascar	en
dc.type	Report
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okr.crossref.title	Madagascar Poverty and Equity Assessment, February 2024: Navigating Two Decades of High Poverty and Charting a Course for Change in Madagascar
okr.date.disclosure	2024-02-20
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-02-15T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Poverty Assessment
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okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/41087
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okr.identifier.report	187729
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099021424172020915/pdf/P17796818b70320641878f166fa034723ca.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.country	Madagascar
okr.sector	Central Government (Central Agencies)
okr.theme	Inclusive Growth,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Economic Policy,Food Security,Rural Development,Economic Growth and Planning,Access to Education,Health Service Delivery,Public Sector Management,Urban and Rural Development,Data production, accessibility and use,Nutrition and Food Security,Education,Health Systems and Policies,Rural Markets,Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unit	EFI-AFR1-POV-Poverty and Equity (EAEPV)