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    The efficiency of maize farming in Malawi: a bootstrapped translog frontier

    2007
    Malawian smallholder agriculture is dominated by maize production and is already operating at its land frontier with very little or no scope to increase the supply of land to meet the growing demand for food. A further expansion of the crop area, which was the major source of maize output growth until the 1980s, is no longer possible due to population pressure.
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    Gender and performance of micro and small enterprises in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
    The role of women in economic development cannot be understated.
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    The Contemporary Political Context in Malawi: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
    This paper examines the contemporary political context in Malawi against the backdrop of the May 2009 fourth consecutive general elections since the transition to democracy fifteen years ago. According to some democratic theorists, emerging democratic countries would face serious challenges in the initial years of democratisation but these would ease up with the passage of time.
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    Seeds and subsidies: the political economy of input programmes in Malawi

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010
    The configuration of maize politics in Malawi has created a strong actor network, which include major donor aid agencies, which favours international commercial players and their genetic material in the seed sector over local producers, and local varieties.
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    Microfinance and poverty reduction in Malawi: what has happened to the microfinance revolution

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2002
    Microfinance has been one of the strategies for poverty alleviation in developing countries. This paper attempts to take stock of the microfinance or micro credit revolution in Malawi, including assessment of factors of success and failure in the delivery of financial services to the poor.
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    Future scenarios for agriculture in Malawi: challenges and dilemmas

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
    Agriculture plays an overwhelmingly important role in Malawi's economy. However, food insecurity problems are exacerbated by the widely changeable food prices particularly since the liberalisation of agricultural produce marketing and the removal of price controls on maize.
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    Rural radio and the promotion of people-centred development in Africa: radio listening clubs and community development in Malawi

    Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2005
    The introduction of multiparty politics in 1993 in Malawi resulted in political and social reforms, which centred on media diversity, freedom of expression and participatory development, all of which are founded on the libertarian principles of empowering local people to consciously generate and utilize local knowledges for improving their status quo.
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    Judicial mediation in electoral politics in Malawi

    University of Botswana, 2000
    The core elements of any liberal democratic political process or system must include competition for political office and, with it, the mandate to govern, and respect for the rule of law. Competition for political office must be assured through the holding of regular elections. Respect for the rule of law in this context partly entails conduct of such elections under an effective legal framework.
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    The status of decentralisation in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000
    This status report on the decentralisation policy in Malawi, is part of a broader regional research project on decentralisation within the SADC region, whose overall objective is to achieve a more intensive advocacy for, and active involvement in, decentralisation by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
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    The evaluation of the Improving Livelihoods through Public Works Program (ILTPWP)

    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 programmes.

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