Madagascar

Madagascar

Politicalaspects

Independence from France in 1960.

Source : http://www.indexmundi.com/madagascar/independence.html

Sourcehttp://www.madagascar-presidency.gov.mg/president/http://www.indexmundi.com/madagascar/executive_branch.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andry_Rajoelina

The president of Madagascar, Mr. Andry Nirina Rajoelina(born in 1974), is the youngest president in Africa.

Mr. Rajoelina became President in 2009.

The government of Madagascar has more than 30 ministers .

Source : http://www.madagascar-presidency.gov.mg/gouvernement/

Economicissues

Source : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/11/40578194.pdf

Relatively stable real GDP growth of about 7%

Sourcehttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html?countryName=Madagascar&countryCode=ma&regionCode=af&rank=211#ma

GDP per capita world ranking:

# 211

� Coffee.� Vanilla.� Shellfish.� Sugar.� Cotton cloth.� Chromite.� Petroleum products.

Export products

Sourceshttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ma.htmlhttp://www.ycsg.yale.edu/focus/papers/MDGMadagascar.pdf

Source : http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gcr/africa/investment/madagascar.pdf

Infrastructure

In 2005 an estimated 3.5 million school days were lost in Madagascar due to diarrhoea and other illnesses linked to poor sanitation .

This absenteeism contributes to the high Malagasy school dropout rate, with six out of ten children never finishing primary school.

Sourcehttp://www.wsscc.org/fileadmin/files/pdf/publication/WASH_Case_Studies_Series_-_Madagascar.pdf

Throughout Madagascar only 38% of the population has access to safe water and only 52% of houses are equipped with latrines .

Sourcehttp://www.wsscc.org/fileadmin/files/pdf/publication/WASH_Case_Studies_Series_-_Madagascar.pdf

Agriculture

Agricultureproducts

Beans

Sugarcane

Peanuts

Vanilla

Cocoa

Coffee

Rice

Livestock products

Cassava (tapioca) Bananas

Cloves

Source : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ma.html

Energy

Only 4% of the country’s communities are now served with electricity.

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

We would like that in 2020, 70% of the energy in Madagascar should be renewable and 10% of transportation will use renewable energy.

The capacity for solar energy is very good in Madagascar, as well as wind energy in the north and south and biomass. We are starting in those directions to [develop] renewable energy.

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

Madagascar is home to the Bemolanga oil sands , one of the world’s largest undeveloped bitumen reserves at 16 billion barrels of oil. Total of France and Madagascar Oil of the U.S. are developing the site.

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

Madagascar also has coal , estimated at 135 million tons

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

Madagascar has the potential for 7,800 megawatts from hydropower , but uses only 150 megawatts .

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

A cooperation deal between battery company Saft and energy management specialist Schneider Electric is to deliver a off-grid solar photovoltaic installationproviding the village of Marovato on Madagascar’s east coast with energy for around six hours per day – mainly in the evenings – as an alternative to the kerosene and hand-gathered wood traditionally used by the 120 villagers.

Sourcehttp://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/09/off-grid-solar-for-madagascar

Source : http://www.ingenieurtram.ch/index.php/filmbeitraege/filmarchiv

Minerals

MineralsSappire

Chromium

Iron ore

Grapphite

Copper

CobaltGold

Titanium

CementZirconium

Nickel

Source : http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2004/mamyb04.pdf

Diamonds

Petroleum

Ruby

Emerald

Madagascar holds half the world’s sapphires as well as semiprecious gems such as amethyst and beryl. It has iron, nickel, graphite, bauxite and uranium. It has lesser-known minerals essential to industry, such as vanadium, a metal used in high-strength steels and titanium alloys, and ilmenite, used in pigments and whiteners from toothpaste to paint.

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/2009/pdf/01.22.09_mad.pdf

Mining companies in Madagascar

http://www.riotintomadagascar.com/

Culturalissues

English (official)French (official)

Malagasy (official)

Languages

63 yearsLife expectancy

Indigenous beliefs 52%Christian 41%

Muslim 7%

Religion

20.6 million peoplePopulation

Source : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ma.html

Source : http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/pop_cou_450.pdf

Source : http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/pop_cou_450.pdf

Source : http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/pop_cou_450.pdf

Source : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58.4437&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Unlike much of the African mainland, Malagasy people share a common language which is spoken throughout the island, hence facilitating communication and trade. French is widely used in the administration and in high school instruction.

The various Malagasy dialects are all closely related, having diversified only in the last 2,000 years when Madagascar was settled by an Indonesian people .

The languages contain some words of Bantu, Swahili, Arab, English, and French origin. Since 1820 the Merinadialect, written in the Roman alphabet, has been the official language of the island.

Sourceshttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/359466/Malagasy-languageshttp://www.wildmadagascar.org/media/PDFs/handout.pdf

Although most Malagasy are from mixed Asian and African ancestry , people from coastal areas harbora historical resentment against people from the central highlands who traditionally ruled the country.

Source : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58.4437&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Geographicalaspects

Source : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/maps/ma_largelocator_template.html

Madagascar� 587,041 km2.� 14 times larger

than Switzerland.� World’s 4th largest

island.

Source : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/maps/maptemplate_ma.html

The island of Madagascar split away from the east coast of Africa more than 120 million years agoand evolved its own unique flora and fauna in quiet isolation from the rest of the world.

Sourcehttp://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/malagasy_pop_747/en_US

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar

Isalo National Park

Source : http://www.wildmadagascar.org/media/PDFs/handout.pdf

Source :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indri_Andasibe.JPGhttp://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/rio_tintos_madagascar_mini_22102007.html

1 of 99 recognized species and subspecies of lemur found only in Madagascar