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  Employment and poverty reduction: key challenges

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2009

  This document constitutes a country position paper on poverty and employment in Malawi. It aims at analysing the possibilities of using employment and increased income opportunities as a means to poverty reduction in the country.
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  Effects of economic and trade policy reforms on food security in Malawi

  Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2004

  Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with per capita gross domestic product of $190 and 65 percent of the population living below the poverty line. The agricultural sector accounts for more than a third of gross domestic product, more than 90 percent of export earnings and is the main source of livelihoods for 71 percent of the rural population.
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  Determinants of marketing channels among smallholder maize farmers in Malawi

  Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2009

  Following the liberalisation of Malawi's agricultural markets in 1987, smallholder farmers have alternative market channels for selling their agricultural produce, including maize. These market channels include the state marketing agency, private traders, relatives or neighbours, local markets, associations, cooperatives and private companies.
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  Corporate Governance and Fixed Private Investment in an African Economy: The Case of Malawi

  Leeds University, 2008

  This study follows Meggison and Netter (2001) to define corporate governance as a system comprising a set of laws, institutions, practices, and regulations that determine how limited-liability companies will be run and in whose interest.
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  Average earnings and minimum wages in Malawi: cointegration and causality

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000

  Minimum wages laws are one of the labour market institutions and regulations that have been blamed for labour market inflexibility in most developing countries. The main contention is that minimum wages in developing countries are set at higher levels than what would obtain if forces of demand and supply were free to operate in the labour markets.
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  Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005

  Malawi is one of the early adopters of structural adjustment reforms in which various macroeconomic policies have been implemented since 1981. In spite of the many reforms Malawi remains one of the poorest nations and about 65 percent of the population live below the poverty line.
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  Agricultural Marketing Liberalisation and the Plight of the Poor in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005

  Since 1981 Malawi has implemented several economic policy reforms under the structural adjustment programmes. Most of the policies targeted the agricultural sector including deregulation of agricultural marketing activities, removal of fertilizer subsidies, devaluation of currency, liberalisation of agricultural prices and liberalisation of special crop production.
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  The impact of education on self-employment, farm activities and household incomes in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009

  The human capital theory has been widely used to estimate rates of return on education from wage employment. This poses a lot of challenges in developing countries where a large proportion of the labour force is outside the labour market.
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  Technocratic and Populist Approaches to Economic Policy Making in Malawi

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2002

  For several economic and political reasons, Malawi provides a particularly interesting case for the analysis of economic policy making. The country is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita income of below US$200, and ranking 157th out of the 174 countries on the UNDP human development index.
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  Malawi: Democracy and Political Participation

  2009

  Malawi was a colonial territory of Britain until 1964, known as Nyasaland. From 1944, the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC), later renamed the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in 1959, spearheaded a nationalist movement to overthrow the colonial system and establish a new political and social order.

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