{jcomments off}Ephraim Chirwa is an Associate Professor of Economics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He holds an MPhil from Cambridge University and PhD in Privatization and Efficiency in Malawi from the University of East Anglia.

He has an interest in organisation and performance of markets, farming systems and performance, poverty and food security analysis, technology adoption and the agrarian question, social safety nets, microfinance and rural financial institutions.