Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses.

"We examine the spatial determinants of the prevalence of poverty for small spatially defined populations in rural Malawi. Poverty prevalence was estimated using a small-area poverty estimation technique.

"This paper discusses enabling and constraining factors related to the scaling-up of the Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Interventions Through Expanded Partnerships (STEPs) initiative, supported by Save the Children U.S.A.

"This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997 98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey.

"While many community-driven development (CDD) initiatives may be successful, their impact is often limited by their small scale.

Household food security is an important measure of well-being.

This paper presents a new methodological framework for measuring the level of household access to credit.

The paper uses the concept of credit limit to analyze the determinants of household access to and participation in informal and formal credit markets in Malawi.

The paper departs from the standard practice that takes the estimated marginal effects of either the amount of credit received or membership in a credit program as measures of the impact of access to credit on household welfare.

In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple.