Madagascar: You Get What You Pay For

analysis

Madagascar once boasted one of the finest school systems in French-speaking Africa.

In the late 1990s, its students scored among the highest marks in maths and French standardised tests compared to the continent's other Francophone countries. When results began to dip in 2003 after a 30-year decline in investment, the government launched a massive school improvement programme. But the 2009 coup halted these reforms. Since then, the country's education and economy have been nose-diving.

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