Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle
Poverty reduction is a primary development goal in Malawi. While a variety of policy interventions and strategies have sought to reduce poverty, the most significant policy intervention in recent years has been the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). FISP provides heavily subsidized fertilizer and...
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| author | Pauw, Karl Beck, Ulrik Mussa, Richard |
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| description | Poverty reduction is a primary development goal in Malawi. While a variety of policy interventions and strategies have sought to reduce poverty, the most significant policy intervention in recent years has been the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). FISP provides heavily subsidized fertilizer and other farm inputs to poor smallholders. Although the programme is primarily designed to address food security through increasing maize yields, its significant burden on public resources has meant that the programme’s wider impact on growth and poverty reduction has also been closely scrutinized as it is believed to crowd out other government interventions. Malawi’s recent growth performance has been remarkable. Official national accounts data reveal strong growth across all economic sectors during 2005–11. However, the authors find that the extreme poverty rate has increased marginally, suggesting that the most vulnerable continue to be excluded from the benefits of economic policy and growth. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1474532025-09-08T09:09:07Z Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle Pauw, Karl Beck, Ulrik Mussa, Richard agricultural policies measurement agriculture smallholders agricultural development poverty cost analysis equality Poverty reduction is a primary development goal in Malawi. While a variety of policy interventions and strategies have sought to reduce poverty, the most significant policy intervention in recent years has been the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). FISP provides heavily subsidized fertilizer and other farm inputs to poor smallholders. Although the programme is primarily designed to address food security through increasing maize yields, its significant burden on public resources has meant that the programme’s wider impact on growth and poverty reduction has also been closely scrutinized as it is believed to crowd out other government interventions. Malawi’s recent growth performance has been remarkable. Official national accounts data reveal strong growth across all economic sectors during 2005–11. However, the authors find that the extreme poverty rate has increased marginally, suggesting that the most vulnerable continue to be excluded from the benefits of economic policy and growth. 2018-02-13 2024-06-21T09:22:54Z 2024-06-21T09:22:54Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147453 en https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2014/844-5 https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744795.003.0007 Open Access Oxford University Press Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; and Mussa, Richard. 2016. Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle. In Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, eds. Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp. Chapter 5, Pp. 89-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744795.003.0005 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural policies measurement agriculture smallholders agricultural development poverty cost analysis equality Pauw, Karl Beck, Ulrik Mussa, Richard Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title | Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title_full | Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title_fullStr | Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title_full_unstemmed | Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title_short | Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi’s poverty puzzle |
| title_sort | did rapid smallholder led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty making sense of malawi s poverty puzzle |
| topic | agricultural policies measurement agriculture smallholders agricultural development poverty cost analysis equality |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147453 |
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