Jumat, 26 Mei 2017

The Various Impacts Of Madagascar Minerals

By Raymond Myers


The world is changing for the better and it is all because of minerals. Qatar is becoming a leading financial center due to the fact that the country has huge natural gas reserves. China is a world power because it is a leading producer of phosphate and other mineral products. Madagascar is greatly transforming. Some of the positive transformations that have been witnessed in this country are attributable to Madagascar minerals. There are more than a dozen companies in this country that are involved with mining activities. Some of those enterprises are based locally while others are foreign based.

The most prominent impact is the economic impact. When there are serious mineral deposits, the economic outlook of a country can change in less than a year. This is because of the infusion of a lot of foreign income to a country. When mineral products are sold in the international market, payment is made in dollars, pounds, yen and precious Euros.

The average people are not excluded from the economic impacts of mining. As a matter of fact, some of them earn their bread as a result of mining. There are people who have moved from one income class to another because of being active participants in the mining sector. Some have earned millions or even billions from this economic activity.

The Madagascan GDP has been positively impacted by mining. This country used to have a small GDP that placed it among the least wealthy countries in Africa. That will not be the case in the next decade or two because the Madagascan GDP is growing at a very fast rate. That has led to the rise in per capita income.

Foreign direct investments are coming to Madagascar at a rate never seen before. People are planning in foreign capitals how they can invest in the mineral sector of this county. For any country to develop and attain high income status there is need for investments from foreigners. A closed economy will soon fail. Free market is a good economic system.

Investors are not bringing their money to the Madagascan economy just because of the presence of minerals. Many other countries in Africa have far greater mineral wealth but investors are shunning them. That is because this nation is more politically and economically stable than such countries. In some African countries, money can be lost in a bank. Madagascar has secure banks with great deposit protections.

It is not the mineral industry alone that is growing. There has been a ripple effect to the entire Madagascan economy. This is because this industry does not exist on itself. It is dependent on other sectors. It is particular dependent on a number of service sectors such as transport, logistics, finance and hospitality. There is need to bank funds and to efficiently transport minerals.

Wonderful transformations are happening in the southern eastern part of Africa. That is where the Madagascan islands are located. This region of the world is experiencing a level of prosperity that has never been seen before and it is all because of newly found mineral deposits. These natural resources are greatly transforming different areas of the Madagascan society. There have been social and economic impacts.




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