By Mathias Burton Kafunda

Malawi’s population is estimated at 14.8million. More than 46 percent of the country´s population is younger than 25 years old. Malawi´s real GDP growth has averaged about 7 percent since 2005, with a peak of 9.7 percent in 2008, and decreased to 2.5% in 2013.  Nearly two-thirds of the population still subsists on less than US$1.25 per day. It has been recognized that the programmes being implemented by Government and major stakeholders designed to achieve sustainable economic growth and development have neither in the short nor in medium term translated into improved quality of life for the ultra and moderately poor. The process of economic growth and development, due to its complex and competitive nature has invariably excluded a certain sector of the population from taking full advantage of the benefits of economic growth. As a result, most of the excluded people remain poor and live in abject poverty, destitution and squalor.

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