The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between farm size and agricultural productivity using data … from Malawi. This paper has examined the relationship using ordinary least squares regression with heteroskedasticity … probably the post market liberalization period (1990s) became characterized by an inverse farm size productivity relationship …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

entry and exit of firms affect performance and labor productivity. …

representing Malawi in 2007 linked to household survey to examine how different trade policy reforms by Malawi and the rest of the … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy … policies could help fight poverty in Malawi, there are no substitute to development policies, and if undertaken simultaneously …

The objective of the paper is to examine the sustainability of the current account in Malawi. The study employs both … econometric analyses and solvency approaches to complement each other. Results from both approaches confirm that Malawi’s current … reveal that for Malawi’s current account to move towards a sustainable path, particular attention should be paid to the …