Further, the year 1994 was not a normal economic year for Malawi. These factors, coupled with the fact that the 1994 Social Accounting Matrix stimulated increasing interest by research institutions to further develop it and use it to develop a consistent framework for in depth policy analysis that integrates macro and micro issues led to a rethinking of maintaining 1994 as a base year. The National Statistical Office conducted a major household survey which provided 5 information on budget shares, incomes and many other social-economic characteristics of households. Nonetheless, there are still a lot of inconsistencies between the various official publications referring to the same variables, for instance, there are three different values for government consumption from the Economic Report published by the National Economic Council, the Quarterly Statistical Review published by the Reserve Bank, and the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics published by the National Statistical Office. Download full-text discussion paper .
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