Madagascar: Measuring the Economic Impact of Cyclones in Madagascar

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Madagascar, Africa's largest island, is naturally prone to cyclones. Earlier this year it was hit by one named Ava - a category three cyclone that killed at least 50 people, displaced over 50,000 and caused huge damage. And just this month another cyclone triggered flooding in the north of the country.

This is not unusual for the island which gets hit by an average of three to four of these aggressive storms each year.

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