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Political change, economic transition and catalysis of IMF and World Bank models: the case of Malawi
Economics Working Paper Archive, 2002This paper investigates whether or not there is a recognisable pattern of cohesion in economic policy formulation between poor countries (on one hand) and the IMF and World Bank (on the other hand) in the context of change in domestic political dispensation.DocumentStructural damage: the causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis
World Development Movement, 2002This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people.DocumentState of disaster: Causes, consequences & policy lessons from Malawi
ActionAid International, 2002Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about the famine and concludes that it occurred as a result of the increased vulnerability of rural livelihoods combining with weak institutional policies and responses.DocumentChanging roles of non-governmental organisations in education in Malawi
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002Looks at the role NGOs are currently playing or are intending to play in strengthening education and civil society in MalawiLessons learned include:Regulation of NGOs within the sector is weak.DocumentMaking less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001Poor 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?DocumentGIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report
Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.DocumentAnalysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This 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. Dr.DocumentMalawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997Malawi’ 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, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.DocumentImproving policy analysis and management for poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa: creating an effective learning community
Eldis Document Store, 2000Significant 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.DocumentMaking less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999Examines 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 in Malawi in 1999.Key finding is that informal transfers, either between rich and poor or the poor themselves, appear to be declining over time, partly as a general coPages