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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen - 2012

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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Risk experiments in gains and losses : a case study for Benin

Gheyssens, Jonathan; Günther, Isabel - 2012

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521588

Two steps forward, one step back : the limits of foreign aid on Malawi's democratic consolidation

Resnick, Danielle - 2012

Since the era of one-party rule, Malawi's relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious …. During the second term of Malawi's current president, Bingu wa Mutharika, this trend has continued apace, with important … threatened to withhold aid to Malawi. Yet, they frequently only proceed with these threats when concurrent concerns exist over …

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Infrastructure and climate change : impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - 2013

issues, the effect of climate change on the road infrastructure of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, all located within the … precipitation changes from potential climate change through 2050. -- climate change ; roads ; infrastructure ; Mozambique ; Malawi …

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Dealing with the 2007/08 global food price crisis : the political economy of food price policy in Malawi

Chirwa, Ephraim Wadonda; Chinsinga, Blessings - 2013

The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government's policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price spikes in 2007/08 were price control, bans on...

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Climate change and economic growth prospects for Malawi : an uncertainty approach

Arndt, Channing; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth M.; … - 2014

Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation …

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The economywide impacts and risks of Malawi's farm input subsidy programme

Arndt, Channing; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2014

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 …