Amid economic gloom, few Malawians hold hope for improvement

Exacerbated by the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and last year’s deadly Cyclone Freddy, the country’s economic woes are reflected in high inflation and shortages of petrol and foreign currency. [...] Figure 1: Direction of the country | Malawi | 2012-2022 100% 89% 89% 79% 81% 80% Going in the wrong 60% 50% direction 40% Going in the right 41% direction 20% 17% 17% 0% 10% 10% 2012 2014 2017 2019 2022 Respondents were asked: Would you say that the country is going in the wrong direction or going in the right direction? Negative assessments of the country's direction are most common among rural r. [...] The figure shows the % of respondents who cite each problem among their three responses.) Lack of basic necessities Focusing in on the household level, how do ordinary Malawians experience these economic problems in their daily lives? Afrobarometer uses the experiential measure of “lived poverty” to assess deprivation based on the frequency with which households go without five basic life necessit. [...] Regional coordination of national partners in about 35 countries is provided by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in South Africa, and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. [...] Institute of Peace, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Open Society Foundations - Africa, Luminate, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union Commission, the World Bank Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, the.