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USAID/Malawi Links
USAID/Malawi
Mission
www.usaid.gov/mw Mission Director:
Local Address:
- Nico House, City Centre
P.O. Box 30455
Lilongwe 3
Malawi
Tel: 265-1-772-455
Fax: 265-1-773-181
From the US:
- DOS/USAID
2280 Lilongwe Place
Washington, D.C.
20521-2280
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USAID's Strategy in Malawi Malawi's political and economic development is impeded by
its landlocked condition, poor transportation network, dependence
on a single cash crop (tobacco) for the bulk of export earnings,
poor incentives for foreign and domestic investment, a strong
legacy of authoritarian leadership, high population growth
rate and low human capacity levels. In December 2000, Malawi
was approved under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Initiative, which will reduce the average annual debt service
of about $50 million over a five year period.
The United States' national goals in Malawi are: the promotion
of market-led economic growth, support for stable democratic
governance and conflict avoidance and containing the HIV/AIDS
pandemic. Malawi emerged from decades of one-party autocracy
to a multi-party democracy in 1994. Fundamental economic liberalization
and structural reforms have accompanied this political transformation,
although they have been fragile and halting. HIV/AIDS affects
16 percent of the adult population, and continues to threaten
the country's future development. Further economic reforms
are needed to ensure stability and democratic consolidation
in the run-up to the 2004 elections. Malawi is a strong U.S. ally within the region, and has demonstrated
relative political and economic stability in an unstable region.
Malawi supports U.S. interests in regional development and
political issues, and recently played a critical role in crisis
prevention and conflict resolution efforts in Zimbabwe, Angola
and the Democratic Republic of Congo, while its president
was chair of the Southern Africa Development Community. U.S.
foreign policy objectives of promoting broad-based, private
sector-led economic growth and democratic governance will
contribute to a more stable country and region.
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