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 Conference paper |
 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Assessment of poverty reduction strategies in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Malawi |
| Author: | Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 110 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Addis Ababa |
| Publisher: | Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) |
| ISBN: | 999445515X; 9789994455157 |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subjects: | poverty reduction economic aid evaluation conference papers (form) 2006 |
| Abstract: | The Poverty Reduction Strategy Process (PRSP) is the latest among the many intiatives churned out by the World Bank and IMF. The Malawi PRSP was formulated and launched in 2002. The main thrust was economic growth through poverty reduction. This collective volume assessing PRSP in Malawi presents three papers on Malawi from a conference on 'Assessment of poverty reduction strategies in sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia', which was held from February 28 to March 1, 2006, in Nairobi, Kenya. Ben Botolo shows that, in most sectors, good strategies were formulated, but that the Malawian PRSP had major weaknesses during the implementation period. In particular, a lack of political will to champion the implementation of the strategy derailed and watered down all good intentions of economic growth and poverty reduction as formulated in the PRSP. Ephraim W. Chirwa concludes that, although Malawi's PRSP had obvious benefits, little changed in the policy environment from what characterized the structural adjustment programmes. Maxton G. Tsoka shows that the Malawi PRSP was poorly funded, implemented and monitored. Rather than engendering ownership, it turned out to be a typical instance of conditionality and arguably a fast-fading fad. Malawi is unlikely to achieve sustainable poverty reduction as long as the idea of poverty reduction comes from outside the government and the country. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
