## Malawi: Staff Report for 2009 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility

_IMF Staff Country Reports, March 31, 2010_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 31, 2010
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455204496.002

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### Executive summary and key findings
- Malawi’s macroeconomic performance has improved significantly over the past two years.
- The agricultural-based economy has weathered the global economic storm relatively well.
- Good weather and the distribution of subsidized fertilizer have contributed to:
  - robust growth, and
  - moderate inflation in recent years.
- Malawi’s medium-term outlook is favorable, conditional on successful implementation of the Extended Credit Facility-supported program.
- Growth is expected to remain buoyant but moderate somewhat relative to the high growth of the recent past.

### Macroeconomic themes and subjects covered
- Balance of payments
- Budget planning and preparation
- Currency markets
- Current account
- Exchange rates
- Financial markets
- Foreign exchange
- Public financial management (PFM)

### Keywords and analytical focus
- article IV consultation discussion
- Budget planning and preparation
- consumer price inflation
- CR
- Currency markets
- Current account
- donor disbursement delay
- exchange rate appreciation
- Exchange rates
- Global
- ISCR
- Malawi
- repayment target
- services expenditure

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