Malawi. Two approaches are adopted; an indirect approach which is based on quantity discounting, and a direct approach which … the poor in rural and urban areas pay more for maize. This evidence of a poverty penalty in the maize market is not …, seasonality does not seem to be behind the observed poverty penalty. The paper also finds that the poverty penalty varies with …

This study analyses the short-term distributional effects of COVID-19 on household incomes in Malawi. Growth is … expected to fall due to the pandemic. The Malawi annual gross domestic product growth rate for 2020 has been revised downwards … from 5.5% to 1.9%. According to the government of Malawi, unemployment in Malawi is expected to increase in 2020 compared …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …