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Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...
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The aim of this paper is to expand our knowledge on risk aversion among the poor by conducting experiments that do not only test risk aversion in small and large stakes but also in risky gains and risky losses. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to conduct experiments in poor...
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi …
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Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation …
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extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties. In Malawi, Joyce Banda …'s adoption of a social protection brand were specific to the political context in Malawi. Elsewhere in East and Southern Africa … in the 2014 Malawi election, although caused partly by other factors, suggests that there are limits to the efficacy of …
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This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by …
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'-to address these challenges and to provide new insight into the causes and consequences of theft. We evaluate this tool in Malawi …
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We estimate the impact of Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Programme using an economywide approach. We find potentially … increases. Abstracting from extreme events, Malawi's programme potentially generates double dividends through higher and more …
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subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point …
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issues, the effect of climate change on the road infrastructure of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, all located within the …
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