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  Bio-economics of common resources over exploitation: case of lake Malombe chambo (oreochromis sp. chichlidae) fishery in Malawi

  Bunda College of Agriculture, 2011

  Despite being a landlocked country, Malawi has developed a remarkable fishing industry. The Maximum catch was 88,000 tonnes in 1987 but dropped to 7,000 tonnes in 1993. It is estimated that the number of fishermen is approximately 40,000 people. The secondary sectors like fish trade and boat building employ approximately 20,000 people.
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  Resurrecting the vestiges of a developmental state in Malawi: reflections and lessons from the 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007

  This paper explores how the experiences leading to the adoption and successful implementation of the 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme can be exploited as the basis for churning out a viable framework for a developmental state in Malawi - broadly understood as the state that seriously attempts to deploy its administrative and political resources to the task of economic development.
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  Political transitions and vulnerability of street vending in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009

  Based on ten years' research into street vending, Cross (2000) concludes “street vending should, by all logical criteria, eventually disappear”. Yet despite this logical analysis Cross adds “what was found, however, is that street vending, despite some problems and frequent attacks, is a thriving and growing phenomenon”.
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  Privatisation and technical efficiency: evidence from Malawi manufacturing

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000

  Many developing countries, and African countries have followed the path of privatisation of the state-owned enterprises (Adam et al., 1992; Cook and Kirkpatrick, 1995; White and Bhatia,1998).
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  Final report Malawi intergovernmental fiscal transfers study

  2000

  Now that local government elections have taken place in Malawi and new assemblies have been sworn in across the country, the implementation of the fiscal decentralisation programme is expected to go ahead with full force. However, before the devolution of the first expenditure responsibilities can take place, a large number of financial and administrative issues will need to be resolved.
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  Child labour in commercial agriculture :the case of Malawi’s tea industry

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005

  This document is a report of a baseline study of child labour in Malawi’s tea industry.
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  How, when and why does poverty get budget priority poverty reduction strategy and public expenditure in Malawi

  2002

  This paper is one of five country case studies which seek to answer the questions how, when and why does poverty get budget priority? The paper assesses Malawi’s experience in introducing pro-poor public expenditure policies from the 1990s to 2001.
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  Hedging Food Security through Winter Cultivation: The Agronomy of Dimba Cultivation in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2006

  Until the introduction of the fertiliser subsidy programme in the 2005/2006 growing season, food insecurity was for close to two consecutive decades a characteristic feature of a great bulk of Malawians both in urban and rural areas.
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  Fishing Down the Value Chain: biodiversity and access regimes in freshwater fisheries - the case of Malawi

  Mzuzu University, 2003

  A long-held view of the development of fisheries is that they initially exploit more abundant, more easily caught species, and switch over time to increasingly less abundant, less easily caught species. Moreover, it is argued that the rate at which less easily caught species are substituted for more easily caught species is accelerated in open access fisheries.
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  Financial reforms and interest rate spreads in the commercial banking system in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004

  Financial reforms have been a major component of structural adjustment programmes in developing countries. Following the McKinnon (1973) -Shaw (1973) hypothesis, the conventional wisdom is that flexibility and efficiency of the financial system are critical to the growth and development of a market economy.

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