Publication: Madagascar : Three Years into the Crisis
Date
2014-05
ISSN
Published
2014-05
Author(s)
Auffret, Philippe
Abstract
Madagascar is one of the poorest
countries in the world and a very high proportion of the
population experiences frequent shocks, whether from natural
disasters, economic shocks or internal crises of governance.
As a consequence, about half the country s population is
undernourished. Children between the ages of 6 and 14 face
the risks of low human capital development, child labor and
marginalization. On the other hand, the Government of
Madagascar s commitment to social protection as a national
policy was never fully effective. Interventions in social
protection have been developed on an ad-hoc basis, often on
the initiative of donors. In order to inform the
government s policy development, the report proposes a
social protection strategy that increases the protection of
the population while decreasing its vulnerability, taking
into account the existing programs and the differences in
exposure to risks between population groups recommendations
that emerge from the research.
Citation
“Auffret, Philippe. 2014. Madagascar : Three Years into the Crisis. Social protection and labor discussion paper;no. 1416. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20056 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”