Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great IslandThe world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged island-wide traditions. |
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Page 55
... production and marketing , training of youth , and coordination among sectors of activity . As in the past — and later in the " structural adjustment ” of the late 1980s and 1990s — the paradoxical strategy was to force productive and ...
... production and marketing , training of youth , and coordination among sectors of activity . As in the past — and later in the " structural adjustment ” of the late 1980s and 1990s — the paradoxical strategy was to force productive and ...
Page 168
... production remains rare and sporadic . Sparsely settled , diversely endowed , Madagascar might soon demonstrate its capacity for economic self - sufficiency , but not yet for develop- ment . no If prosperity has proved elusive , it is ...
... production remains rare and sporadic . Sparsely settled , diversely endowed , Madagascar might soon demonstrate its capacity for economic self - sufficiency , but not yet for develop- ment . no If prosperity has proved elusive , it is ...
Page 213
... Production fell 300,000 tons short of these expectations , however , and climatic and market factors reduced the 1991 production of rice by a further 10 per- cent , exhausting the state's buffer stocks . For 1991–1992 , the Food and ...
... Production fell 300,000 tons short of these expectations , however , and climatic and market factors reduced the 1991 production of rice by a further 10 per- cent , exhausting the state's buffer stocks . For 1991–1992 , the Food and ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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