Malawi and Poverty
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Food shortages and the humanitarian reponse in southern Africa
- International Development Committee, UK, 2003
- In early 2002 southern Africa was gripped by food shortages. These were just one aspect of a complex humanitarian crisis, with impacts ranging across all sectors, from agriculture, to education and health. The trigger for the crisis w...
- Maps of poverty distribution in Malawi
- T. Benson; J. Kaphuka; S. Kanyanda; R. Chinula / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- No maps on social statistics in Malawi have been produced for wide distribution for at least 10 years. This atlas combines information and analysis of the 1998 Population and Housing Census and the 1997-98 Integrated Household Survey,...
- How public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals
- M. Foster; A. Fozzard; F. Naschold; T. Conway / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- Summary produced by the Governance Resource Centre. It has become a part of the conventional wisdom of development policy that poverty reduction is one of the main development objectives. What are the key factors influencing th...
- A review of the issues surrounding land use, HIV/AIDS and poverty
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and cha...
- Children and HIV in Southern Africa
- Alan Whiteside; Su Erksine / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- This paper takes an approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southern Africa region based on a 'high road' and a 'low road' response to HIV/AIDS by Save The Children UK. His main argument is based on the fact that in the absence of go...
- Experiences with poverty mapping
- H. Henninger; M. Snel / Poverty Mapping, 2002
- This document reports on the use of poverty mapping as an instrument for investigating and discussing social, economic, and environmental problems. Within the context of this report, Poverty Mapping is defined as the spatial represent...
- Indicators of relative-poverty for Malawi
- National Statistical Office of Malawi, 2001
- Analysis of the 1998 survey into five quintiles according to their rank based on their household welfare indicator. The report is a supplement to the "Profile of Poverty in Malawi, 1998" report whcih looked at absolute poverty measure...
- Agriculture-poverty linkages in Malawi
- National Statistical Office of Malawi, 2000
- Briefing on agriculture/poverty linkages found by analysis of the Malawi Intergrated Household Survey Findings include: Cropping patterns do not differ greatly between poor and non-poor. Regional differences in c...
- What has been Malawi’s experience in introducing propoor public expenditure policies?
- F. Fozzard; C. Simwaka / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper assesses Malawi’s experience in introducing propoor public expenditure policies from the 90s to 2001. Performance is assessed in terms of the consistency of fiscal policy and resource allocations with the Government...
- What prospects do the twin PRSP and decentrailsation processes offer for improving rural livelihoods in Malawi?
- F. Ellis; M. Kutengule; A. Nyasulu / Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
- This paper takes a critical view of the PRSP and decentralisation processes in Malawi based on investigations of rural livelihoods in eight villages in the Dedza and Zomba districts. The paper finds that rural Malawians confro...
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi
- The Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation is Malawi Government's main planning agency responsible for national economic and development planning, and monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic issues in the country. Its main mandate is to provide professional advice and technical support to Government and the public on economic and social policy development and management so as to achi...
- National Research Council of Malawi (NRCM)
- Promoting science and technology-led development in Malawi
- Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme
- Malawi social cash transfer pilot scheme
- Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN)
- Pro-poor civil society organisation
