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Malawi is a landlocked country in southern Africa. Malawi is one of the world's undeveloped countries and is ranked 170 out of 187 countries according to the 2010 Human Development Index. [1] It has about 16 million people, 53% of whom live under the national poverty line and 90% of whom live on less than $2 per day. [2]
As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...
Winford Masanjala published books and articles over the years in his career as an academician. in 2008 he published Rough and lonely road to prosperity: a reexamination of the sources of growth in Africa using Bayesian model averaging, [5] The poverty-HIV/AIDS nexus in Africa: a livelihood approach [6] in 2007, Cash crop liberalization and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Malawi [7 ...
The service sector accounts for 51.7% of Malawi's national GDP. Notable industries are tourism, retail, transport, education, health services, telecommunication and the banking sector. The Government of Malawi holds shares in many important companies, such as Malawian Airlines (51%) and Press Corporation Limited. Press Corporation Ltd. is the ...
The National Statistical Office of Malawi (NSO) is the main government department responsible for the collection and dissemination of official statistics in Malawi. [1] It has headquarters in Zomba and 300 employees, and operates under the 2013 Statistics Act. The NSO also has regional offices in the major urban centres of Lilongwe, Mzuzu, and ...
Ntchisi is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. The district covers an area of 1,655 km.² and has a population of 317,069. [ 1 ] The capital is Ntchisi .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial ... and Malawi show that the programs can be ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... He is known for his research in public health, poverty, and, and ... Thereafter he returned to Malawi in 1991 to work as a ...