Martin Mwale

Martin Mwale is a Malawian Ph.D. candidate at the Economics Department of the Stellenbosch University of South Africa. He is a development Economist by profession and training. He has served the Malawi Government as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist particularly in the Programmes, Projects and Social Economic Policy division since 2013. Martin has mastered quantitative methods of analysis including the usage of statistical software (Stata, R, and QGIS). His research interest is in Micro-Econometrics and household welfare analysis within the fields of Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Labour Economics, and Social Policy. Currently, he is working on “measuring the household welfare effects of the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Program using” daylight satellite images.

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Fields of specialization

Gender & women’s empowerment, Poverty and inequality , Health and nutrition, Education and training, Impacts of government programs, Labour markets and employment, Youth and children

Projects

Title	Country	Themes
Considering social gender norms under income shocks: Evidence to support women’s economic resilience and empowerment in Malawi	Malawi	Gender & women’s empowerment
Climate shocks and decision-making amongst smallholder farm households in Malawi: Do gender roles influence adaptation?	Malawi	Gender & women’s empowerment , Agriculture and food security , Climate change
The unintended consequences of the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) on women's agency	Malawi	Gender & women’s empowerment , Agriculture and food security

Details

Mr. Martin Mwale
The University of Stellenbosch

Contact information:

martinmwale4@gmail.com
CapeTown (Western Cape)
South Africa
7600
T: +27764860144
martinmwale4@gmail.com