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Description: 20 Global Majority E-Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 20-32 Malawi: A development puzzle? Salman Dossani Abstract This article focuses on various…
Global Majority E-Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 20-32 Malawi: A development puzzle? Salman DossaniAbstract This article focuses on the different dimensions of poverty in Malawi. It examines Malawi’s progress in terms of income poverty and human development. It illustrates the puzzling performance of Malawi, which has failed to raise people’s incomes for most of the past 30 years, but has made considerable progress in improving human development without income. It analyzes some of the sources of this gap between GDP growth and human development, looking at access to clean water and sanitation, corruption and protection. Introduction In South-Central Africa is Malawi (once known as Nyasaland), currently a nation of approximately 15.3 million people. The total area of Malawi is about 110,000 square kilometers and is divided into four fifths land and one fifth water. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a purchasing power parity (PPP) adjusted GDP per capita of only $794 in 2009. Malawi attracts very little of the world’s media and continues to strive to place on the map of the world. Although the nation is small in terms of population and land area, it has the privilege of being vibrant, exotic and lively. Far from the luxurious lifestyle of the concrete jungles of the West, Malawi offers breathtaking mountaintop views, pristine golden sandy beaches and friendly people, earning it the name “The Warm Heart of Africa” “. Much of Malawi is underdeveloped and therefore most of the natural features remain intact. Despite the stunning beauty and soothing nature, the people of Malawi suffer from low living standards. Since Malawi gained independence from Great Britain on July 6, 1964, it has been a peaceful and democratic country. Only recently, the current president of Malawi, Mr. Bingu wa Mutharika, was accused of violating human rights and exercising autocratic leadership.11 On April 5, 2012, President Bingu wa Mutharika was died of a heart attack at the age of 78 (which happened). after this was written). this article has been completed). 20 Influenced by the wave of protests in the Middle East, Malawians launched their own version of protests to oust the current president. Deflated export sales, the lack of foreign currency, the prevailing poverty, the increase in the prices of raw materials and the abuse of state resources summarize the reasons for such upheavals. Economic difficulties have created uncertainty and instability in Malawi’s economy, lowering confidence across the board. In addition, Malawi is highly dependent on the agricultural sector, so it is not able to reduce its dependence on loans and grants from various international development institutions and industrialized countries. The resources provided help the poor to take care of basic needs, education and infrastructure. Although money is often added to Malawi’s economy, how has this process helped Malawi fight poverty? This article examines Malawi’s progress in reducing poverty. Data from the 1980s are used to analyze various indicators related to economic growth and social development. The structure of the article is as follows. After this introduction, the next section provides a brief review of the literature. Part III examines the perplexing contradictions of Malawi, which has made very little progress in terms of GDP per capita and GDP growth, while exceeding the sub-Saharan African (SSF) average, i.e. all income levels included) on a number of social indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality, as . Section IV analyzes some possible explanations for this development task, before Section V presents some conclusions.II. Literature Review Since Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, analysts have conducted several studies that seek to investigate the causes of poverty in Malawi, especially in rural areas. Although many studies have focused on examining the criteria that are potential agents of poverty alleviation in Malawi, there are also many research analysts who indicate the handicaps that hinder the prospects of the rural poor in Malawi. The following paragraphs summarize some of the more prominent literature. The End of Poverty: The Economic Opportunities of Our Time by Jeffery Sachs (2005) is an award-winning book that offers a set of solutions for developing countries that are intertwined and intertwined with non-economic, political and environmental problems. and social issues. One chapter of the book focuses on Malawi. Sachs (2005, p. xvi) clearly outlines the impact of the 2005 drought, which destroyed the lives of many people throughout Malawi: “In August 2005, my wife and I returned to the villages of Ntandirea and Chilota in Malawi, which we had. visited in 2002. Once again these villages were suffering from drought and extreme hunger. One of the children and a young man we met in 2002[….. .] was now dead, only three years later. Even in 2005. the drought was clearly the root cause, Sachs (2005) makes it clear that the cut enough funding was the main cause of Malawi’s perfect storm, it was the penalty of death given to Malawi by the international community. Another very significant study is the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy. Paper (PRSP) officially titled Malawi Growth and Development Strategy: From Poverty to Prosperity 2006-2011. This Malawi government document (2006) seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of poverty in Malawi and the necessary policy actions towards prosperity. Ellis, Kutingule and Nyasulu (2003) provide a critical perspective on Malawi’s previous PRSP and Malawi’s decentralization strategy, based on micro-level studies of rural livelihoods. 21 His study finds that poverty not only prevents poor rural farmers from increasing productivity and well-being, but that Malawi’s decentralization strategy has worsened the situation by giving power to local organizations, which has opened and doors to all kinds of abuse, including various forms of abuse. corruption an equally compelling paper, Peters (2006) provides a chronological overview of rural income and poverty in Malawi since the 1980s. Part of the discussion focuses on structural adjustment loans from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) and the World Bank, which prevented the possibility of farmers in rural areas to prosper after the independence of Malawi. However, starting in 1994, Malawi and the World Bank adopted alternative strategies that led to an increase in anti-economic growth. However, as each year passed, corruption and neglect of smallholder farmers led to a slowdown in economic growth in Malawi.III. Empirical backgroundIII.1. Malawi’s economic development As shown in Figure 1, GDP per capita excluding the international dollar in 2005 is rather disappointing for Malawi compared to the entire Sub-Saharan Africa (SSF) region. in the last ten years. In 1980, the average income for Malawi was just over $600. In 2009, we find that the GDP per capita of Malawi reached just over $700. The GDP per capita of the region has always been higher than and Malawi, and the gap between Malawi and the region has grown and grown. While Malawi’s GDP per capita was 38.7 percent of the region’s GDP in 1980, in 2009 Malawi’s GDP per capita was 36.7 percent of the region’s GDP. Figure 1: GDP per capita (in constant 2005 international dollars), Malawi versus SSF Source: Created by the author based on the World Bank’s World Development Indicators (2011) (published on the website of the World Bank; downloaded 7 June 2011). It is clear that Malawi has struggled to increase its per capita income. Based on a per capita income of US$700, the average Malawian earns very close to $2 per day, and this is still an overestimate of what most Malawians earn because some wealthy Malawians inflate the average. Based on the latest available poverty data, 90.5 percent of Malawians lived on less than $2 a day in 2004, and 73.9 percent of the Malawian population lived on less than $1.25 in in 2004.2 These high poverty rates explain why Malawi remains one.