Madagascar’s economy faces an array of challenges in reducing poverty, including severe infrastructure deficits, severe climactic events, poor transport links, tenuous access to markets, and in some cases counter-productive policy responses to external shocks. The report says that micro-enterprises are unable to increase their productivity and profits due to conditions related to generalized poverty, low demand for non-agricultural goods and services, and difficulties with performance of hired workers and repaying credit. These enterprises, which employ most off-farm workers, therefore, cannot grow, create more jobs, and bid up wages. These and other constraints have forced Madagascar’s poverty rate to remain exceedingly high (The World Bank, 2017).
Their approach for this project is to let Men and women have the same wages and business profits, improving the roads connectivity for the poor, and providing electricity in the communities where it can help stimulate more productive off farm enterprises (The World Bank, 2017).
(www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/03/21/poverty-in-madagascar-recent-findings)