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Institution Development and the Notion of Sustainability

McGill, Ronald - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 6, pp. 26-40

Institutional development (ID) can be an elusive concept when attempts to analyse it are made. The notion of sustainability is even more intangible, save for the fact that the results of any ID should be able to continue after the external or technical assistance is withdrawn. Attempts to define...

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Do local land institutions make a dime's worth of a difference in rural land markets? Evidence from Malawi

Collins Matchaya, Greenwell - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 11, pp. 1055-1072

registration in the rural areas of Malawi. Design/methodology/approach – Using new data collected from around 100 households … farming around 200 parcels in three regions of Malawi, a number of models are estimated with ordinary least squares. Findings … enhancing land market activities for rural masses in Malawi. Originality/value – The uniqueness of this paper rests in it its …

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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and … of tobacco, the major cash crop in Malawi. Given the non-experimental nature of the data we use matching and potential … covering Malawi, for the period 2003-04 to 2009-10. The estimation results support a statistically significant positive impact …

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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to …

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Participation in pro poor agro based enterprises in Malawi: do households’ poverty levels change automatically?

Pangapanga, Phiriinnocent; Thangalimodzi, Lucy Tembo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

estimating a multivariate and data censoring analyses on 1000 household dataset from Malawi. The paper found that fish and … household poverty levels. Pro poor agro based enterprises reduced household poverty by 8-24% among poor household in Malawi … and market based barriers that affect participation in agro based enterprises in Malawi. The paper also suggests that pro …

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Do shocks have a persistent impact on consumption?

Davies, Simon - In: Progress in Development Studies 10 (2010) 1, pp. 75-79

This article uses rural Malawian data to study the long-run impact of two household shocks (sickness and death) and two community shocks (floods and drought) on household per capita consumption. Little work has been done in this area, but understanding these shocks and the extent to which...

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Analysis of Effectiveness of Modern Information and Communication Technologies on Maize Marketing Efficiency in Selected Markets of Malawi

Tione, S. E.; Katengeza, Samson P.; Mangisoni, Julius H. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based market interventions in improving maize market efficiency in Malawi … effectiveness of modern ICTs. The spatial integration result shows that markets in Malawi were integrating. The results of TAR …

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Do Aid Donors Specialize and Coordinate within Recipient Countries? The Case of Malawi

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Sotirova, Albena; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

geocoded aid data from Malawi to assess whether the country’s bilateral and multilateral donors have acted accordingly at the …

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What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi

Greco, Giulia; Skordis-Worrall, Jolene; Mkandawire, Bryan; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 130 (2015) C, pp. 69-78

such as Maimwana womens' groups, a community based participatory intervention to improve maternal health in rural Malawi. …

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Demokratisierung und Wirtschaftslage : empirische Untersuchungen am Beispiel dreier afrikanischer Länder

Wollnik, Thomas - 1997

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