Comments on: Hopeless cause of the week: save Madagascar! http://aidwatchers.com/2009/11/hopeless-cause-of-the-week-save-madagascar/ just asking that aid benefit the poor Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:34:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ernest Kreutzer http://aidwatchers.com/2009/11/hopeless-cause-of-the-week-save-madagascar/comment-page-1/#comment-7403 Ernest Kreutzer Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:55:58 +0000 http://aidwatchers.com/?p=1577#comment-7403 I would like to comment about kleptocrat . Consideringthe situation in Madagascar it could be some similar to the countries from previous east-bloc;but in fact i would rather talk more as a zombie-economy in Africa and Madagascar . Since about 2000 ,Madagascar took an other way like a born-again economy to try to be steadfast loyal and true to the market . Stop aid we are ready to suffer more as the parliamentary is showing it through hunger strike ;but keep trade going on we need work and jobs . D'ont let Madagascar to go back to a medaeval economy ;it is not worth the millenium challenge . I would like to comment about kleptocrat .
Consideringthe situation in Madagascar it could be some similar to the countries from previous east-bloc;but in fact i would rather talk more as a zombie-economy in Africa and Madagascar .
Since about 2000 ,Madagascar took an other way like a born-again economy to try to be steadfast loyal and true to the market .
Stop aid we are ready to suffer more as the parliamentary is showing it through hunger strike ;but keep trade going on we need work and jobs .
D’ont let Madagascar to go back to a medaeval economy ;it is not worth the millenium challenge .

]]> By: Solofo RAFENO http://aidwatchers.com/2009/11/hopeless-cause-of-the-week-save-madagascar/comment-page-1/#comment-7306 Solofo RAFENO Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:44 +0000 http://aidwatchers.com/?p=1577#comment-7306 For avoiding another catastrophy in Madagascar, the US should keep AGOA incentive for this country. However, the change in march 2009 was a coup and Obama Administration should stated that if they keep Madagascar within the AGOA process, it is only for avoiding more people to lose their jobs and not as a support to Andry Rajoelina's coup. A clear oficial statement from US government is key; moreover the US could keep Madagascar within AGOA but should ban coup leaders (Andry Rajoelina and his deputies) from any official relationship and discussion with the US Administration and also not permit them to come to the US; and this until the last power sharing deal signed in Addis-Abbeba implemented. Solofo For avoiding another catastrophy in Madagascar, the US should keep AGOA incentive for this country. However, the change in march 2009 was a coup and Obama Administration should stated that if they keep Madagascar within the AGOA process, it is only for avoiding more people to lose their jobs and not as a support to Andry Rajoelina’s coup.
A clear oficial statement from US government is key; moreover the US could keep Madagascar within AGOA but should ban coup leaders (Andry Rajoelina and his deputies) from any official relationship and discussion with the US Administration and also not permit them to come to the US; and this until the last power sharing deal signed in Addis-Abbeba implemented.
Solofo

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]]> By: Justin Kraus http://aidwatchers.com/2009/11/hopeless-cause-of-the-week-save-madagascar/comment-page-1/#comment-7301 Justin Kraus Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:22 +0000 http://aidwatchers.com/?p=1577#comment-7301 First I agree with you that AGOA should stay. However having spent a good few months in Madagascar in 2008 researching, and in a part of the country where Mr. Ravalomanana was most unpopular no less, the Tulear region, I still wouldn't be so quick to draw an easy equivalence between him and his younger successor. Certainly both are kleptocrats. But Mr. Ravalomanana was at least an elected kleptocrat, whereas Mr. Rajoelina took power in what was in effect a coup. We can of course argue over the extent of voter fraud during the last election that brought Mr. Ravalomanana his second term in office, but even most people I talked to in the Tulear region thought that even without the fraud he would have won the election or at least received a large plurality of the votes. I am hardly endorsing the man but elections, even flawed ones, are almost always better than coups. Mr. Ravalomanana at least kept up the form, if not much of the substance. Mr. Rajoelina, and perhaps more importantly those behind him, don’t seem to give a damn about anything. First I agree with you that AGOA should stay.
However having spent a good few months in Madagascar in 2008 researching, and in a part of the country where Mr. Ravalomanana was most unpopular no less, the Tulear region, I still wouldn’t be so quick to draw an easy equivalence between him and his younger successor. Certainly both are kleptocrats. But Mr. Ravalomanana was at least an elected kleptocrat, whereas Mr. Rajoelina took power in what was in effect a coup. We can of course argue over the extent of voter fraud during the last election that brought Mr. Ravalomanana his second term in office, but even most people I talked to in the Tulear region thought that even without the fraud he would have won the election or at least received a large plurality of the votes.
I am hardly endorsing the man but elections, even flawed ones, are almost always better than coups. Mr. Ravalomanana at least kept up the form, if not much of the substance. Mr. Rajoelina, and perhaps more importantly those behind him, don’t seem to give a damn about anything.

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