Data from the second Service Delivery Satisfaction Survey conducted in Malawi in 2004 on key sectors of Malawian life: agricultural service, public safety, public health provision, water provision, primary education, road infrastructure and governance.60pp, MALAWI. MALAWI ECONOMIC JUSTICE NETWORK.

2005 NO ISBN Pamphlet

The main goal of the OSSREA project on Poverty Reduction Strategies in sub-Saharan Africa, from which this book is derived, was to analyse the ongoing poverty reduction strategy processes (PRSP) and provide guidance to policymakers and advocacy groups in selected countries. The specific objectives were: i) To assess the core elements of the poverty reduction strategies with respect to the desired targets; ii) To analyse the feasibility of envisaged ap-proaches in implementing the strategies and sustainability of outcomes; iii) In relation to the above, to assess the monitoring and evaluation indicators as well as the institutional aspects of the implementation of strategies; and iv) To analyse the role of IMF conditionalities and other regional and global issues relevant to the process, including debt reduction, market access and foreign investment. 124pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.

An economic study of the relationship between Malawi and Japan, looking at Japanese economic initiatives in Malawi and what the country can learn from the post war Japanese success story. Bib, map, b/w illus, 66pp, MALAWI. MONTFORT PRESS.

2003 9990892105 Paperback

Critique of Malawi's recent national budget. Tables, charts, 36pp, MALAWI. MALAWI ECONOMIC JUSTICE NETWORK.

Government ministerial assessment of sustainable development prospects in accordance with the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit agenda. 131pp, MALAWI. GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI.

2004 999082648X Paperback

Glossy official policy document. Bib, col photos, 92pp, MALAWI. GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI.

2005 NO ISBN Paperback

The numbers of Africans living in absolute poverty continues to increase. Through bolder and more innovative approaches, the poor can be helped, at very reasonable cost, to break out of poverty. Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist, outlining an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits. 256pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Argues that the new public management model that Malawi, like most African countries, adopted under the influence of donor organisations has not led to the intended development. The book examines decentralisation, performance contracting, and public-private partnerships as key aspects of the reforms and comes to the conclusion that at best, it can be argued that the failures have been due to poor implementation and this could be attributed to the fact that the process was led by donors who lacked the necessary institutional infrastructure. 118pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

Study of emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators who are the focus of the book, informality is a means for negotiating newer experiences and challenges associated with urbanisation. Jimu documents how informal economy activities continue to represent grassroots responses to widespread poverty, unavailability of meaningful employment opportunities and the failure of the state as well as the private and the non-state sectors to respond to escalating demand for formal sector jobs. 142pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.