Malawi is a landlocked, densely populated country located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malawi borders Zambia to the northwest, Mozambique surrounds it on the east, south, and west, and Tanzania borders to the north. According to the Index of Economic Freedom 2007, which ranks countries based upon ten different freedoms, Malawi is ranked number 106 out of 157. Although Malawi is not the worst off country, there are many reasons to explain why Malawi’s economy is unstable and is ranked as one of the world’s least developed countries. The country has been faced with terrible government corruption, a low Human Development Index due to a low life expectancy rate, literacy and enrollment rate, a low GDP per capita, limitations of its geographic location, and widespread disease.
One of the reasons that can explain why Malawi is in such a poor economic state is due to their government corruption. After Malawi was given independence from Britain in the late 1960’s, the authoritarian rule......
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