targeting efficiency of the WFP program to that of the Malawi Social Action Fund Public Works Programme projects. Second, WFP … surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses. A poverty map for Malawi, developed by drawing upon … information from the 1997–98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey with the 1998 Malawi Population and Housing Census, provides …

Groundnut Value Chains in Malawi by Andrew Emmott 9. Aflatoxin Management in the World Food Programme through P4P Local …

inequality in Mozambique, particularly with regard to geographical targeting of antipoverty efforts. Reliably identifying and … targeting the poor can be administratively costly, especially in rural Africa, where low population density and weak … administrative capacity are common. Geographical targeting, or targeting poor areas, is sometimes proposed as a feasible alternative …

-level targeting of anti-poverty programs may not be very effective... Finally, the study notes that the small area estimation method …

and a relative absence of poverty in other parts, the situation is much more nuanced. This suggests that targeting …

Malawi. Poverty prevalence was estimated using a small-area poverty estimation technique. A theoretical approach based on the … determinants. That is, in determining the level of poverty in rural communities, where one is located in Malawi matters. This … result for poverty reduction efforts in rural Malawi implies that such efforts should be designed for and targeted at the …

informal and formal credit markets in Malawi. Households are found to be credit constrained, on average, both in the formal and … Malawi. Finally, formal and informal credit are found to be imperfect substitutes. In particular, formal credit, whenever …

"This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997 98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis developed … inequality estimates for Malawi's population. About 65 percent were unable to meet their basic needs, and poverty was deep and … pervasive. The distribution of household welfare was loosely examined within the context of the Malawi Poverty Reduction …

This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors … also endogenizes population growth and prevailing land tenure institutions within the customary sector of Malawi. The … field surveys. The data show a deterioration of Malawi's natural resource base: declining yields, loss of tree cover, and …