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      Social ties amongst lower-income citizens shape support for vote-buying candidates
      Prisca Jöst, Ellen Lust - LSE Blogs , 2023 - London, UK
      Across Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, political candidates often attempt to buy the votes of the most socio-economically deprived communities. But new research from Prisca Jöst and Ellen Lust argues that social cohesion in these communities is instrumental in determining the levels of support for...
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      Social ties, clientelism, and the poor’s expectations of future service provision
      – Receiving more, expecting less?
      Prisca Jöst, Ellen Lust - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Are candidates who hand out clientelistic goods at election time less likely to provide services once they take office? This paper examines the poor’s expectations of future service provision by candidates who hand out money and other goods versus those who do not. We hypothesize that the poor’s...
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      Developing a Malawi–South Africa value chain for industrial hemp
      – What are the challenges?
      UNU -WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      Diversifying the agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa is important for the combat against poverty and climate change. In Malawi there are plans for legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp, which would at best bring possibilities for Malawi and South Africa to complement each other in...
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      Social protection as a political brand
      – Example from Malawi
      UNU -WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      Social assistance programmes have proliferated across Africa alongside redemocratization — the return of multi-party systems with regular, competitive elections. Competitive elections in Africa can provide an incentive to welfare policy reform because they push presidential candidates and political...
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      Social assistance, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi
      Sam Hamer, Jeremy Seekings - Oxford University Press , 2019
      From the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
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      The counting approach to multidimensional poverty
      – The case of four African countries
      Valérie Bérenger - South African Journal of Economics , 2019
      Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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      Climate change and developing country growth
      – The cases of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia
      Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Sergey Paltsev, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow - Climate Change , 2019
      We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the economic interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and...
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      The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern Africa
      Thando Vilakazi - Development Southern Africa , 2018
      Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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      Regional Growth Opportunities
      Channing Arndt, Simon Roberts - Development Southern Africa , 2018
      This issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. This special issue is based on the UNU-WIDER project 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa'. This project aims to develop, in conjunction with important research...
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      The counting approach to multidimensional poverty
      – The case of four African countries
      Valérie Bérenger - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster index with alternative poverty indices that are...
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      Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, Malawi
      Stephan Brenner, Danielle Wilhelm, Julia Lohmann, Christabel Kambala, Jobiba Chinkhumba, Adamson S Muula, Manuela De Allegri - Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland
      Objective To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi. Methods We conducted a non-randomized controlled before and after study to evaluate the effects of district- and facility-level performance incentives for health...
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      Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania
      Margaret E Kruk, Adanna Chukwuma, Godfrey Mbaruku, Hannah H Leslie - , 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland
      Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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      Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
      Margaret E. Kruk, Adanna Chukwuma, Godfrey Mbaruku, Hannah H. Leslie - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Objective: To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries. Methods: We pooled nationally representative data from service provision assessment surveys of health facilities in Kenya, Malawi...
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      Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi
      Sam Hamer, Jeremy Seekings - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Competitive elections in many parts of Africa generate powerful incentives to presidential candidates (and to a lesser extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties. In Malawi, Joyce Banda—President from 2012 to 2014—sought to distinguish herself...
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      Towards the integration of markets
      – Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
      Thando Vilakazi, Anthea Paelo - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Rapid urbanization and rising income levels in Southern Africa have increased the consumption of perishable and processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in transporting time-sensitive perishable products across borders...
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      Understanding intra-regional transport
      – Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
      Thando Vilakazi, Anthea Paelo - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are...
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