longitudinal data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project, which contain family rosters, information on HIV testing …

deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …

This paper studies nonmarket institutions that facilitate exports. In Malawi, as in many other developing countries …

events and disasters). Analyzing the combined effects of these two threats on six disaster-related institutions in Malawi …Southern African institutions involved in disaster management face two major new threats: the HIV/AIDS pandemic …

This analysis explores the potential impact of climate change on the viability of the Malawi weather insurance program …

financial institutions to their neighbors who do not have such accounts. The survey, which was conducted in 2005, contains …

Climate variability poses a severe threat to subsistence farmers in southern Africa. Two different approaches have … ongoing pilot insurance scheme for smallholder farmers in Malawi. The authors propose a model that adjusts the amount of high …. Conclusions highlight the potential of this approach for adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa. …

groundnut farmers in Malawi, where by far the dominant source of production risk is the level of rainfall. We randomly selected …

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent … of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent … answer these questions using household and remote-sensing data. They find that 80 percent of rural poor households in Malawi …

rural Malawi involving large stakes. It makes two contributions. First, it constructs a new dependent variable: revisions of …