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
- This study shows that access to land via agricultural production is one of the factors that can translate growth to poverty reduction in Malawi.
- E.W. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
- Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production...
- Evaluating the impact of the Improving Livelihoods through Public Works Programme (ILTPWP) in achieving its stated objectives.
- E. W. Chirwa (ed); P.M. Mvula (ed); B.M. Dulani (ed) 2004
- Public works employment programmes have become an important tool for helping the most vulnerable groups to move out of poverty in Malawi. Malawi is one of the countries in southern Africa to implement poverty-oriented public works pro...
- Using a livelihoods framework to examine poverty and HIV
- W.H Masanjala / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2006
- This paper reviews the nexus between poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa using a sustainable livelihood framework. Much of the literature on HIV and AIDS has generated an almost universal consensus that the AIDS epidemic is having an immen...
- Do Malawians trust traditional medicine?
- T Bisika 2005
- Global blindness increased from 28 million to 45 million in the two decades between 1975 and 1995. Current projections suggest that 76 million people will be blind by 2020 unless specific activities are undertaken to halt the tr...
- How is Brazil’s Bolsa-Familia programme relevant for the Southern African Development Community
- R. Maharaj; K. Town / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Given the recent interest in South Africa for developing a basic income grant, it is useful to study successful examples of social grant implementation to ascertain the challenges and opportunities associated with such a system. This ...
- How pro-poor is the Malawi Social Action Fund?
- D.H. Ng'ong'ola; J.H. Mangisoni; K.A. Wiyo / Bunda College of Agriculture, 2001
- The Malawi Government (GOM) launched the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) Project in 1996 with the support of the International Development Agency (IDA) as one of the key instruments for poverty alleviation. This report presents a Be...
- Poor sanitation and water logging challenges in rural Malawi
- J.W. Mtungila; V. Chipofya / National Research Council of Malawi, 2007
- Sanitation remains one of the pillars of good health in Malawi. This study aims at finding ways for improving sanitation for rural people living in areas with water logged sandy soils. It also looks at the mode of construction o...
- The need to grow cash crops has a negative effect on deforestation
- B. Mkwara; D. Marsh / Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009
- Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural land and investigates why the poor are closely associated with forests. Furthermo...
- Integrating Poverty Alleviation Programmes into institutions in Malawi
- B. Chinsinga / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000
- The potential successes of the Poverty Alleviation Programmes (PAPs), which have become more or less the defining features of contemporary development strategies, raise crucial questions of institutional design. Would the successful i...
- Continued marginalisation of informal workers in Malawi
- R.I.C. Tambulasi; H.M. Kayuni / Poverty Frontiers, 2007
- Malawi has a huge informal sector due to high levels of unemployement. One of the ways people earn income in this sector is minibus-calling. This considerably reduces the vulnerability of many who would otherwise be excluded economica...
- 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
