The global commitment to reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, is only growing stronger. For instance, there has been tremendous growth in the number of metrics assessing women’s empowerment since 2010 (Quisumbing et al., 2023). But none of these metrics are concise enough nor applicable across a […]
MAZIKO – Malawi Integrated Maternal and Child Grant Project
MAZIKO (meaning "Foundation" in Chichewa) is a 5-year project launched in November 2021, aimed at improving child nutrition and development in Ntcheu and Balaka districts in Malawi. It integrates maternal and child grants with government-recommended social and behavior change interventions. The project is implemented by Save the Children and GiveDirectly and reaches nearly 42,000 households […]
IFPRI Maize market report September 2023
The Monthly Maize Market Reports are developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi, with the main goal of providing clear and accurate daily maize price data in selected markets throughout Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those interested in maize markets in Malawi, namely producers, traders, consumers, or other agricultural stakeholders. Highlights Retail […]
Policy Note 50: Can urban growth reduce rural underemployment?
Abstract: In a recent IFPRI working paper, Van Cappellen and De Weerdt (2023), we show how urban growth reduces underemployment in the rural hinterlands of towns and cities. But leveraging these labor market linkages between urban and rural areas for inclusive growth and poverty reduction will depend on overcoming two barriers. The first is that […]
Working Paper 43: Rural Underemployement and Urbanization: Insights from a nine-year household panel survey from Malawi
Abstract: Rural labor markets in Africa are frequently characterized by underemployment, with farmers unable to fully deploy throughout the year one of their most important assets—their labor. Using a nine-year panel data set on 1,407 working-age adults from rural Malawi, we document changes in rural underemployment over this period and how they are associated with […]
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