The Oxford Handbook of the Malawi Economy

Hopestone Kayiska Chavula is an Economist currently with the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, providing support to African countries on macroeconomic and the use of digital technologies for development related issues. Dr Chavula holds a PhD in Economics and has taught Economics and Computer sciences at the University of Malawi, after working in the private and public sector, as both an Economist and information technology (IT) specialist. Harold Ngalawa is a Professor of Economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. In 2018, he founded the Macroeconomics Research Unit, the only research unit in South Africa specializing in macroeconomics research. Professor Ngalawa has also taught Economics at the University of Malawi. Before joining the academia, he worked as Bank Economist at the Commercial Bank of Malawi and Head of Research at Continental Discount House, Malawi. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town. Boniface Dulani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Government at the University of Malawi. He is also a member of the pan-African research network, Afrobarometer, where he serves as Director of Surveys. Dulani holds a PhD. in Comparative Politics with minors in International Relations, from Michigan State University. Thomas Chataghalala Munthali is the first Director General of the Malawi National Planning Commission since March 2019, after being Director of Knowledge and Learning at the African Capacity Building Foundation based in Harare, Zimbabwe coordinating Africa's capacity development efforts. He holds a PhD in Business and Economics, University of Leeds, England. Prior to this, Dr. Munthali worked as Country Director for Innovations for Poverty Action covering Malawi and Zambia; as Economist with Ministry of Economic Planning, World Bank and UNFPA; as advisor to the chair of the African Union in 2010/11, and as President of the Economics Association of Malawi.

1: HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA, HAROLD NGALAWA, BONIFACE DULANI, AND THOMAS CHATAGHALALA MUNTHALI: INTRODUCTION: Malawi's Development Policy Frameworks and Economic Performance.
Part 1: The Political Economy of Malawi's Development
2: HAPPY MICKSON KAYUNI: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Development Policy and Politics in Malawi
3: MWIZA JO NKHATA: The Presidency and Constitutionalism in Post-Independence Malawi: A Case of Absolute Power Corrupting Absolutely?
4: JOSEPH NAGOLI: Malawi in the Socio-Economic Development History of Southern Africa
5: MICHAEL CHASUKWA, BONIFACE DULANI AND SANE ZUKA: Development Aid and Institutional Design: Interests and Power Games in Malawi's Local Development Fund
6: SARA E. FISCHER AND MICHAEL CHASUKWA: The Political Economy of Global Health: The Case of Development Aid and Parallel Paths in Malawi's Health System
7: MICHAEL CHASUKWA AND DAN BONIK: Development Aid: Complementarity or Competition? The West and China in Malawi
Part II: Macroeconomic Policy and the Country's Growth Performance
8: HAROLD NGALAWA: Inflation Dynamics, Output, and Monetary Policy in Malawi
9: BERTHA CHIPO BANGARA-CHIKADZA: Public Debt, Economic Growth and Inflation Dynamics in Malawi
10: GRACE GONDWE: External financing and Economic Growth in Malawi
11: BERTHA CHIPO BANGARA-CHIKADZA: Public Revenue - Expenditure Nexus in Malawi: Are There Asymmetries?
12: WAZIONA LIGOMEKA: Unravelling the Direct Tax Puzzle in Malawi
13: FERDINAND AHIAKPOR, ERIC AMOO BONDZIE, WILLIAM GODFREY CANTAH AND HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Malawian Economy: A Structural Econometric Approach
Part III: Social Development and Long-Term Growth
14: LEVISON S. CHIWAULA AND SYMON WINIKO: Malawi's Secondary School Education System and Intergenerational Poverty
15: GOWOKANI CHIJERE CHIRWA: An Evolution of Socioeconomic Inequality in Healthcare Access in Malawi
16: PETER SUWIRAKWENDA NYASULU, AND JACQUES LUKENZE TAMUZI: Multisectoral Health Service Delivery and Disease Surveillance System in Malawi
17: JACOB NOVIGNON, GOWOKANI CHIJERE CHIRWA AND RAYMOND BOADI FREMPONG: Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Nutritional Outcomes in Malawi
18: YESUF M. AWEL AND HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA: Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Malawi
Part IV: Agriculture as an Engine of Malawi's Long-Term Growth
19: JUDITH F.M. KAMOTO AND PAUL FALAKEZA FATCH: Factors Affecting Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Malawi: A Historical Perspective and Implications for the Future
20: BENJAMIN MATTONDO BANDA: Reframing Climate Change Policies and National Development Plans for Sustainable Development in Malawi
21: RODGERS MAKWINJA, CHRISTOPHER J. CURTIS, AND SOLOMON TESFAMICHAEL: Wetland Farming Systems in the Context of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Potential in Malawi
22: WILSON WESLEY LAZARO JERE AND ELIAS CHIRWA: Aquaculture Policy Analysis Through Stakeholders' Perception in Malawi
23: CHIKONDI MANYUNGWA-PASANI AND JOSEPH NAGOLI: Constructed Socio-Economic Exclusion: A review of women's economic participation in small scale fisheries value chain in Malawi
24: BETTIE SINDI KAWONGA AND BEATRICE BANDA: Intensification as a Strategy to Promote Dairy Farming in Malawi: The role of dairy farmer groups
25: HAMILTON KAMWANA, JULIUS MANGISONI AND KEN MACHILA: Barriers to Crop Insurance Adoption Among Malawian Farmers
Part V: Industrialization and Structural Transformation
26: HOPESTONE K. CHAVULA AND YESUF M. AWEL: Understanding Sources of Growth and Productivity Growth in Malawi
27: KEN CHAMUVA SHAWA: Drivers of Labour Productivity in Malawi
28: HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA: An Empirical Analysis of Malawi's Manufacturing Productivity Growth
29: EMMANUEL JOSHUA CHINYAMA: Africa's Integration and the African Continental Free Trade Area: The Case of Malawi
30: HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA: Digital Technologies and Economic Development in Malawi
Part VI: Facing the Future
31: HOPESTONE KAYISKA CHAVULA, HAROLD NGALAWA, BONIFACE DULANI, THOMAS CHATAGHALALA MUNTHALI: Conclusion: Policy Strategies and the Country's Future Growth Trajectory