Returns to labour in Malawi: How do we compare?
Greenwell Matchaya* My recent posts in this paper and other fora have discussed the need for legal reforms as a means to achieving greater societal good, enhancing the adjudication of socio-economic rights and ensuring that Malawians are truly governed justly and convicts are sentenced in accordance with guidelines that do not defy logic. On the economic front, I have written, firstly, on the need and ways for enhancing national savings as a means to greater economic progress, drawing parallels with our neighbours in the Southern African Development Community-SADC, and secondly, on the need for radical structural change in the agricultural sector as another important means towards pro-poor economic development. Today, I would like to discuss the issue of returns to our labour in Malawi as a way of showing how much we need to improve to be at par with the other SADC countries and beyond. Although this note does not discuss policy options in any detail, I hope that it can create f