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Malawi's Political Settlement: Crafting Poverty and Peace, 1994–2014

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  • Jan Pospisil
  • Alina Rocha Menocal
  • Diana Cammack

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Since 1994, Malawi's elite have constructed their political settlement in a way that has generally benefited them as a whole and individually. They have established a social contract with the population that mostly maintains enough services to sustain social conciliation, have created a workable though less‐than‐democratic governance arrangement and have done all of this while not establishing a policy environment conducive to national economic development. The paper analyses four ‘critical junctures’ between 1994 and 2014, which are key to Malawi's current political settlement. At each of these, institutions were laid down that have affected political and economic governance. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Jan Pospisil & Alina Rocha Menocal & Diana Cammack, 2017. "Malawi's Political Settlement: Crafting Poverty and Peace, 1994–2014," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(5), pages 661-677, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:29:y:2017:i:5:p:661-677
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    1. Makoza, Frank, 2024. "Unpacking assumptions on social democratic developmental state in the Malawi Vision 2063: A critical approach," EconStor Preprints 285317, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    2. Nowack, Daniel, 2018. "Cultural values, attitudes, and democracy promotion in Malawi: how values mediate the effectiveness of donor support for the reform of presidential term limits and family law," IDOS Discussion Papers 27/2018, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    3. Bennell, Paul, 2021. "The political economy of attaining Universal Primary Education in sub-Saharan Africa: The politics of UPE implementation," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

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