Abstract: Maize prices fluctuate significantly throughout the year in Malawi, creating winners and losers depending on who is selling and who is buying the staple at different times. We link maize market price data to nationally and temporally representative household survey data on maize sales and purchases to quantify welfare gains and losses throughout the […]
Working Paper 44: Fertilizer subsidies in Malawi: From past to present
Abstract: Malawi has been at the center of the debate on agricultural input subsidies in Africa ever since it significantly expanded its fertilizer subsidy program about two decades ago. When it did so, Malawi was a trailblazer, receiving international attention for seemingly leveraging the subsidy program to move the country from a situation characterized by […]
Journal Article: A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi
We are pleased to announce that the article "A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi," Authored by Bob Baulch, Seng Kiong Kok, and Aubrey Jolex has been published in the Journal of Development Studies. Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach to monitoring farmer prices in low-income developing countries. […]
Discussion paper 02232: Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Initiatives to combat climate change often strive to include women’s voices, but there is limited evidence on how this feature influences program design or its benefits for women. We examine the causal effect of women’s representation in climate-related deliberations using the case of community-managed forests in rural Malawi. We run a lab-in-the-field experiment that randomly […]
IFPRI Project note: Associations between women’s empowerment and maternal depressive symptoms: A cross-sectional analysis from Balaka and Ntcheu districts in Malawi
Enhanced women's empower ment has been linked to im provements in various areas of women's lives, such as in creased access to resources, decision-making power, and a manageable workload. It can also have posi tive effects on child health out comes, including nutritional sta tus and early childhood develop ment. However, there can also be […]
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