TY - BOOK ID - 84538760 TI - Assessing the Impact of Structural Adjustmenton the Poor : The Case of Malawi AU - Brekk, Odd. AU - Hicks, Ronald. PY - 1991 SN - 1462319653 1455212199 1282020013 9786613796103 1455277665 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Inflation KW - Incomes Policy KW - Price Policy KW - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty KW - Government Policy KW - Provision and Effects of Welfare Program KW - Economic Development: Human Resources KW - Human Development KW - Income Distribution KW - Migration KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy KW - Price Level KW - Deflation KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Income KW - Wages KW - Real wages KW - Expenditure KW - Minimum wages KW - National accounts KW - Prices KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Minimum wage KW - Malawi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84538760 AB - This paper applies, through a case study on Malawi, a simple methodology indicating the first-round (i.e., price) effects of macroeconomic policies on real earnings of the poor. As the economic program in Malawi has not involved substantial exchange rate action or cuts in subsidies, the real incomes of the poor have been most clearly affected by the pricing policies of the agricultural parastatal and the overall anti-inflationary measures incorporated in the program; developments in minimum wages have also been important. The study suggests that, on balance, these various factors have led to an increase in real incomes of the poor over the program period. ER -