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Version April 5th 2012

LAND & PEOPLE

Malawi is a typical African agricultural country with a lack of natural resources, which makes the arable soil the most important resource. Other industries, such as industrial production or tourism are stuck in their infancy. To gain foreign exchange, the country is therefore dependent on exportation of itst main agricultural commodities. These include mainly tea, tobacco, coffee and sugar which must be exported expensively overland to Tanzania and South Africa.

Mass unemployment is part of everyday life of over 15 million citizens. Economic development is hampered by lack of money in the educational sector. A surplus of unskilled labour on the one hand is facing a shortage of skilled workers on the other hand. The level of primary schooling is low and only 2% of pupils manage to visit secondary level.

Some comparative figures in per capita annual income of different countries (US Dollar):
Malawi USD 313
Mozambique USD 465
Tanzania USD 340
Zambia USD 521
Kenya USD 857
South Afrika USD 5693
Switzerland USD 67'385
(IWF 2008)