Winford Masanjala is the Secretary for Economic Planning and Development in the

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. He is also an

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at the

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, Chancellor College.

Education

Winford Masanjala studied for his bachelor's degree in social science at the University of Malawi Chancellor College. He later went to study for his master's degree in Economics and PhD at the University of Loisianna.

Publications

Winford Masanjala published books and articles over the years in his career as an academician. in 2008 he published ''Rough and lonely road to prosperity: a reexamination of the sources of growth in Africa using Bayesian model averaging'', ''The poverty-HIV/AIDS nexus in Africa: a livelihood approach'' in 2007, ''Cash crop liberalization and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Malawi'' in 2006, ''The Solow model with CES technology: Nonlinearities and parameter heterogeneity'' in 2004 and ''Initial conditions, and post-war growth in sub-Saharan Africa'' in 2007, and recently in 2018 he published, ''Tackling Malawi’s medical brain drain''.

References

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