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    Poverty and Gender in Malawi: A Background Paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2021-09-23) Gross, Melanie; Muller, Miriam; Caruso, German Daniel; Cardona Sosa, Lina Marcela
    The paper, which serves as a gender background paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment, is structured as follows. It first presents the data and empirical strategy. Chapter two presents poverty data and discusses the intersection of poverty and gender. Poverty by household composition is essential for understanding gendered differences in poverty. From there, chapter three explores gender disparities in economic opportunities, following the analytical framework cited earlier. The authors will then move to potential drivers of economic outcomes: endowments (chapter four) and agency (chapter five). The last section offers conclusions.
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    COVID-19 Impact Monitoring: Malawi, Round 2
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-09) Malawi National Statistical Office; World Bank
    In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (HFPS COVID-19), a monthly survey of a nationally representative sample of households previously interviewed as part of the Malawi Integrated Household Panel Survey to monitor the economic impact of the pandemic and other shocks. This brief presents findings of the second round of the Malawi HFPS COVID-19 conducted in July 2020.