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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 MarcelaThe 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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LSMS+ Program in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from Individual-Level Data Collection on Labor and Asset Ownership
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-05-05) Hasanbasri, Ardina ; Kilic, Talip ; Koolwal, Gayatri ; Moylan, HeatherEstablished in 2016, the World Bank living standards measurement study - plus (LSMS+) program works to enhance the availability and quality of intra-household, self-reported, individual-disaggregated survey data collected in low- and middle-income countries on key dimensions of men’s and women’s economic opportunities and welfare. This report presents findings on gender differences in labor market outcomes and ownership of physical and financial assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on the national surveys that have been implemented by the respective national statistical offices (NSOs) in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania over the period 2016-2020, with support from the LSMS+ program. -
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COVID-19 Impact Monitoring: Malawi, Round 7
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-03) World BankIn May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire sample of households that had been interviewed during the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) 2019 round and that had a phone number for at least one household member or a reference individual. This report presents the findings from the seventh round of the survey that was conducted during the period of January 20 - February 6, 2021. -
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COVID-19 Impact Monitoring: Malawi, Round 5
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-01) World BankIn May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, (coronavirus) which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire sample of households that had been interviewed during the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) 2019 round and that had a phone number for at least one household member or a reference individual. This report presents the findings from the fifth round of the survey that was conducted during the period of October 29 - November 16, 2020. -
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COVID-19 Impact Monitoring: Malawi, Round 4
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-11) Malawi National Statistical Office ; World BankIn May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire sample of households that had been interviewed during the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) 2019 round and that had a phone number for at least one household member or a reference individual. This report presents the findings from the fourth round of the survey that was conducted during the period of September 14 - September 29, 2020. -
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COVID-19 Impact Monitoring: Malawi, Round 3
(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-10) Malawi National Statistical Office ; World BankIn May 2020, the national statistical office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, has launched the high-frequency phone survey on Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire sample of households that had been interviewed during the integrated household panel survey (IHPS) 2019 round and that had a phone number for at least one household member or a reference individual. This report presents the findings from the third round of the survey that was conducted during the period of August 2 to 16, 2020.