The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on (English)

This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to regain some of the lost ground since the mid-1990s. Margins between freight on board (FOB) and farmgate prices have spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual...

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Cadot,Olivier;

Dutoit,Laure;

De Melo,Jaime A. P.;
Document Date
2006/08/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS3979
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Madagascar,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on
Keywords
farmer

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Cadot,Olivier; Dutoit,Laure; De Melo,Jaime A. P..

The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3979 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/244911468271511638

The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on (English)

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