Malawi economic performance assessment

The report draws on a variety of international data sources, covers a broad range of topics, and uses international benchmarking to identify major constraints, trends, and opportunities for strengthening growth and reducing poverty. The analysis for Malawi reveals serious problems in numerous areas, with few signs of healthy performance. Malawi urgently needs to follow through on recent efforts to strengthen macroeconomic management, and to take serious steps toward further improvement of the enabling environment for private sector development. This necessitates deeper reforms, control of corruption, infrastructure investment, and better health and education programs, within the limits imposed by very scarce resources. (Author abstract)