of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

, empirical studies are rare. This paper investigates the determinants of moral hazard among JLL schemes from Malawi, using group …

proposed method is applied to the Malawi maize market with monthly data from June 1999 to October 2009 for 26 districts. This … costs of domestic maize trade in Malawi. The evidence indicates that markets are particularly well integrated during food …

in the study is from Malawi collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct …

"Malawi's economy is fragile, dominated mainly by the production end export of agricultural products. National … of fish in Malawi as declining as the population grows at a rate of 3.3% per annum, pressures on natural resources are … the economic base. Such an approach offers the only solution, not only to common property resource management in Malawi …

Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is important to individuals …, describes the results of a randomized field experiment in Malawi examining borrower responses to being fingerprinted when …

This thesis covers years of field work in Malawi, Africa by the author as a Research Agronomist (Tree Nuts) for the … Government of Malawi. The thesis is an action research type with core and thesis projects which are closely linked. The client … group are large estate managers who control the tree nut industries in Malawi. The political, economic and historical …

household survey data from Malawi to analyse ‘one of the other faces of malnutrition’. The world food price crisis of 2007 … studies set in Malawi, which analyse welfare in terms of food security and income effects using the same 2004/05 household … by differences in conceptualising price changes. In case of Malawi, for a reasonable set of observed price changes, mean …

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …