## Malawi: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility

_IMF Staff Country Reports, February 20, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: February 20, 2001
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827972.002

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### Executive summary and main findings
- Malawi showed good economic performance under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement, but its poverty rate remained high.
- Executive Directors stressed the need to improve fiscal and monetary stances, and accelerate structural reforms.
- Directors appreciated the 10-point plan to improve budget management.
- Directors emphasized the need to sustain the soundness of the banking system.
- Directors agreed to provide further concessional assistance.
- Directors urged the authorities to sustain efforts to improve data collection and dissemination, particularly in the area of fiscal statistics.

### Policy recommendations and priorities
- Improve fiscal stance.
- Improve monetary stance.
- Accelerate structural reforms.
- Implement and sustain the 10-point plan to improve budget management.
- Sustain the soundness of the banking system.
- Continue and deepen efforts to improve data collection and dissemination, with emphasis on fiscal statistics.
- Provide further concessional assistance to support the program.

### Thematic coverage and subjects
- Arrears
- Expenditure
- External debt
- Monetary base
- Money
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction
- Poverty reduction strategy

### Keywords (as provided)
- Arrears
- CR
- interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
- ISCR
- Monetary base
- Paris Club creditor
- Poverty reduction
- Poverty reduction strategy
- PRGF arrangement
- PRGF loan
- SDR
- Southern Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- treasury bill auction

### Publication and document specifics
- Publication date: February 20, 2001
- Pages: 98
- Volume: 2001
- Issue: 038
- Series: Country Report No. 2001/038
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827972.002
- Stock No: 1MWIEA0022001
- ISBN: 9781451827972
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Citation example provided in source: International Monetary Fund. "Malawi: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility", IMF Staff Country Reports 2001, 038 (2001), accessed 9/7/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827972.002

*IMF Staff Country Report — Malawi: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (February 20, 2001).*

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