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Madagascar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1851 words) |
 | Madagascar is made up of a highland plateau fringed by a lowland coastal strip, narrow (c.30 mi/50 km) in the east and considerably wider (c.60–125 mi/100–200 km) in the west. |
| Madagascar carries on a relatively small foreign trade, and the annual value of imports is usually higher than the value of exports. |
| Madagascar’s political and economic upheaval prompted the government to establish a multiparty system and move toward the privatization of industry in the 1990s. |
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Madagascar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3631 words) |
| The principal institutions of the Republic of Madagascar are a presidency, a parliament (National Assembly and Senate), a prime ministry and cabinet, and an independent judiciary. |
| Madagascar developed a recovery plan in collaboration with the private sector and donors and presented it at a "Friends of Madagascar" conference organized by the World Bank in Paris in July 2002. |
| Madagascar's population is predominantly of mixed Asian and African origin, though those who are visibly Asian in appearance and culture are the minority, found in the highland regions. |
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