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

Malawi, and estimates the effect of household adoption of an export crop, namely tobacco, on child height-for-age z …

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

events and disasters). Analyzing the combined effects of these two threats on six disaster-related institutions in Malawi …

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

ongoing pilot insurance scheme for smallholder farmers in Malawi. The authors propose a model that adjusts the amount of high …

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 …