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ome quick-wins. However, the economic recovery remains fragile and the business environment remains weak. This is exemplified by the government’s failure to attract adequate investment towards other key sectors of the economy such as manufacturing and diversify the economy. During election time periods, elites are likely to focus more on political survival than economic growth, and this will delay the implementation of crucial structural reforms.
As a result, the outlook in the short-term and long-term is not positive. Without a smooth election and transition of power, the current political challenges will be heightened and this will adversely affect the economy in a number of ways – fundamental reforms will be delayed and the business environment will continue to be weak for long-term investment. This will undermine the investment potential of the export processing zones that have contributed to the recovery of the economy. Therefore, the country needs to maintain political stability in the short-term and long-term for development to take place. However, looking specifically at demographic transition and politics, we do not see any substantial contribution or impact this instability has had on the population numbers. From time onwards, the lack of political will and strong governmental plans has led to very low policy effectiveness. The effect of instable politics leading to poor implementation of population policies would have a direct effect on demographic transition. Thus, the political scenario indirectly had a major impact as the political frenzy affected all the factors in the economy.

3. Health
Public policies in the health sector have a huge potential to secure the health of communities. This is why health is an important parameter to be observed as it plays an utmost imperative role in securing and stabilizing the IMR and TFR figures of a country. Madagascar fac