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
- Draft PRSP for Malawi
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- Poverty situation analysis and strategy paper for Malawi
- Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi
- Stephen Devereux / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Poor households in Malawi have had to adjust to an array of negative shocks to their livelihoods over the past decade. But what coping strategies do poor people adopt in times of crisis? How successful are they? An Instit...
- Livelihoods and security issues in Malawi
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999
- Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial p...
- Accessing credit can lead to a decline in income for rural smallholders
- A. Diagne; M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This report analyzes the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and its impact on farm and nonfarm income and on household food security and seeks to quantify the relationship between the demand for formal loans and that for infor...
- Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance
- Ed Campos; Sanjay Pradhan / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- How institutional arrangements affect incentives governing the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources and improve transparency and accountability binding key players to particular fiscal outcomes and making it costly for the...
- Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade
- Davies H. Ng'ong'ola / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. ...
- Implications for the design and targetting of more formal safety nets
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks. Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out...
- Poor people's view of the good life
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 1999
- Also known as Consultations With The Poor, the report looks at poor people's definition of what comprises a good life, and the role of poverty. Based on interviews conducted using participative methods. The Consultations study ...
- Effective learning for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: donor interventions and the role of postgraduate training
- P. Bennell; E. Masunungure; N. Ng'ethe; G. Wilson / Eldis Document Store, 2000
- Significant poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be achieved without strong policy analysis and management capacity both in the public sector and civil society at large. This report provides a comprehensive needs assessment ...
- Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
- M. Whiteside; S. Carr / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestat...
- 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
