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An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in...
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Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The …
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Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
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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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