*This is a revised version of the Working Paper originally distributed in March 2023. The original analysis of off‑farm income sources subsequently was found to have overlooked remittances from biological children of the head of household or the household head’s spouse who were 15 years old and over and did not live in the household. […]
Working Paper 40: Employment options and challenges for rural households in Malawi
Malawi has suffered from weak economic growth since its independence in 1964. Over 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line, unable to produce enough or to otherwise obtain sufficient income to meet all of their basic needs. Poverty is concentrated in rural areas. Smallholder agriculture dominates employment in rural Malawi. However, with continuing […]
Working Paper 39: Targeting Hunger or Votes? The Political Economy of Humanitarian Transfers in Malawi
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers? We analyze the targeting of direct cash and food transfers distributed in Malawi in response to an exceptionally poor harvest following a late and erratic rainy season of 2015-16. Combining household survey data on transfers with a remotely sensed measure of drought and […]
Working Paper 38: Are the drivers of production and sales of maize, groundnut, and soyabean by farming households in Malawi changing?
Abstract By directing increasing shares of their farm production to the market and, thereby, realizing greater incomes, farming households can accelerate local rural economic development. In this study, we examine household and spatial factors that may drive smallholder farming households in Malawi to produce and sell maize, groundnut, and soyabean. Two cross-sectional analyses are done […]
Working Paper 35: Who uses and who benefits from warehouse receipt systems?
IFPRI Malawi Working Paper 35, authored by Jack Thunde and Bob Baulch, examines who uses and who benefits from warehouse receipt systems using unique transaction level data from the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) based in Malawi.
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