This paper assesses rural households’ decision to use improved maize varieties in Malawi and examines its impact on …

The success of global health and development interventions ultimately depends on local reception. This paper documents … local demand for HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa and seeks to explain patterns of demand using data from a country hard …-hit by AIDS. As international agencies and national governments scale up HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa, I find HIV …

We measure the impacts of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program on the cropland allocation decisions of farmers in … Kasungu and Machinga districts in central and southern Malawi. Using a two-step regression strategy to control for endogenous …

wake of liberalization on the structure of the industrial sectors in Malawi and find that, in contrast to the hypothesis … are more finance dependent. The case of Malawi is interesting because financial liberalization has been justified … precisely as a means for industrial development and because the implementation of the policy has been regarded as relatively …

This paper examines seasonal food price crises in Malawi. In the 2000s, Malawi experienced three episodes in which …

Malawi. It does so by examining the direct effect of the crisis on Malawi’s economy and the financing experience of civil … society organization involved in the delivery of services. The paper finds that Malawi’s economy survived the global crisis …

Reaching the poorest is an important objective in many development interventions, and microfinance is no exception. We … dataset from a community-managed microfinance intervention in Northern Malawi, we find regressive targeting: Participants are …

The impact of small-scale irrigation investments on household consumption, assets, and informal insurance is estimated … from a panel of Northern Malian households (1998–2006). Access to irrigation increases household consumption by 27 …–30% relative to water-recession and rain-fed cultivators. The paper also investigates whether irrigation has secondary impacts on …

Promotion of smallholder irrigation is cited as a strategy for enhancing income generation and food security for sub …-Saharan Africa’s poor farmers, but what makes this technology a successful poverty alleviation tool? In the short run, the technology … longer run, it should lead to institutional feedbacks that support sustained economic development and nutritional …

The role of development cooperation in fostering improved environmental governance of extractive industries in African …