Élites, pouvoir et régulation à Madagascar. Une lecture de l’histoire à l’aune de l’économie politique

Mireille Razafindrakoto (), François Roubaud and Jean-Michel Wachsberger ()
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Mireille Razafindrakoto: IRD [Guinée] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme
Jean-Michel Wachsberger: CeRIES - Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" - ULR 3589 - Université de Lille, DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme

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Abstract: This article sketches an interpretative framework for Madagascar's long-term history by mapping key junctures in its political economy. Concurrent periods of economic expansion and political crisis imply that the country's inability to reach a stable political consensus about wealth accumulation and distribution remains a fundamental source of its hardships. This theory holds that understanding Madagascar's trajectory requires a rereading of its distant past, from precolonial times to the present. The authors identify the central actors, the sources of power and wealth, the economic and social modes of control, and the contradictions of the system. We can see six main periods; a clean break separates each without resolving Madagascar's main contradictions.

Keywords: Madagascar; économie politique; crise; répartition des richesses; political economy; crisis; wealth distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Afrique Contemporaine, 2014, 3 (251), ⟨10.3917/afco.251.0025⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/afco.251.0025

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