Elemot C. Chauma, Cecilia Ngwira,
Residents are an integral stakeholder in any tourism destination and understanding their sentiments on any tourism activity within their locality is very critical. Although local people are the most affected by tourism development at such places, there is a deficit of research on the local communities' perceptions on the impacts of and changes to their communities due to World Heritage Site (WHS) operations. Thus, the study sought to assess residents' sentiments towards cultural heritage tourism ...
Tópico(s): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Heritage Tourism
Chimwemwe Msukwa, Marion Keim-Lees,
Endogenous African governance systems are criticised for excluding women. This critique ignores several realities that women have played roles different from those of men. This article examines the roles that women play in endogenous governance structures of patrilineal and matrilineal ethnic groups in rural areas in Malawi on leadership, violent conflict prevention, and transformation. It argues that these endogenous governance systems inherently contain features that enable women to actively participate ...
Tópico(s): Religion, Society, and Development
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Development in Practice
Boniface Dulani, Lise Rakner, Lindsay J. Benstead, Vibeke Wang,
Incumbency advantage and corruption are persistent features of Malawi politics, yet the incumbent Joyce Banda lost the 2014 elections. Drawing on national public opinion surveys and focus groups, we explore why incumbency advantage did not accrue to Banda. We argue that faced with a major corruption scandal, "Cashgate," Banda paid a heavier price than male incumbents facing corruption scandals before and after her. Her electoral fate is consistent with studies demonstrating that women holding political ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Women s Studies International Forum
Annie D. Smith, Effie Chipeta, William Stones, Kristin Mmari,
Engagement in dating relationships plays an important role in the health trajectories of young people, particularly during the early adolescent period between ages 10–14. Yet little is known about such relationships among youth in low resource contexts. This study sought to contribute to the literature on this topic by exploring reasons why school-going young people aged 12–14 years engage in dating relationships in Blantyre, Malawi. A thematic analysis was used to code and analyse in-depth interview ...
Tópico(s): Intimate Partner and Family Violence
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Culture Health & Sexuality
Abstract The article contributes to recent attempts to provide historically and ethnographically nuanced accounts of cosmopolitanism. A central argument in the article revolves around the notion of situated cosmopolitanism. While cosmopolitanisms must be envisaged in the plural, common to these diverse cultural projects is an uneasy relation to the home that imposes itself on the subject. Pentecostal Christians in an impoverished township in Malawi consider this-worldly realities as one, ruled by ...
Tópico(s): Migration and Labor Dynamics
2004 - Routledge | Ethnos
Sara Yeatman, Christie Sennott,
Studies of the relative influence of partners' fertility preferences on behaviors tend to treat preferences as fixed, largely independent traits despite existing theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that they are moving targets that may be jointly developed within relationships. In this study, we use couple‐level panel data from married and unmarried young adults in southern Malawi to examine the relationship between partners' family‐size preferences. We find evidence of assortative ...
Tópico(s): Global Maternal and Child Health
2014 - Wiley | Studies in Family Planning
This article describes the remaking of fishing practices by the Lakeside Tonga fishers of Malawi, in relation to the local and regional redistribution of power since the colonial era. It first reviews the centrality of the regional waterscape in shaping interventions that eventually turned Lake Malawi's western shore into a reserve for long-distance migrant labour. Previous reports have tended to treat the resultant ‘returned labour migrants’ as advocates of the commercialisation of fishery. Bringing ...
Tópico(s): Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Southern African Studies
Abstract A growing body of literature has examined the impact of different types of family structures on children’s schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. These studies have investigated how living arrangements, gender of the household head, parental death, and paternal migration are related to schooling. Although many sub-Saharan African countries have high divorce rates, very few studies have explored the impact of parental divorce on children’s schooling. The present study uses three waves of data ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Demography
This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers' participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 14 of the 32 sites in the programme. The findings pointed to a mix of intrinsic motivations, namely a deep concern for orphans and vulnerable children, a moral obligation to help, and a declared love of the work undertaken, and also to external factors such as spirituality, ...
Tópico(s): Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Development in Practice
Natalie Suckall, Evan D.G. Fraser, Piers M. Forster,
For farmers in rural Africa, climate change could significantly alter the natural environment, leading to a loss of income, food security and well-being; however, much remains unknown about the way a change in climate may affect a person's decision to migrate away from their home. Using a framework based on migration aspirations and capabilities, this paper examines how climate stresses (such as droughts that cause a long-term decline in harvests) and climate shocks (i.e. acute food shortages and ...
Tópico(s): Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Climate and Development
Fatima Zahra, Rachel Kidman, Hans‐Peter Kohler,
We evaluate whether community norms, caregiver beliefs, and adolescents' own beliefs and perceptions, focused on early marriage, predict adolescent marriage aspirations in a low-income context.The processes that contribute to adolescent marriage aspiration formation have received little attention in low-income contexts, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding how marriage aspirations are formed is important because they are associated with critical education and health outcomes.Using data ...
Tópico(s): Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Marriage and Family
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frédéric Vermeulen, Selma Walther,
Do individuals marry and divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the economic attractiveness of a person's marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer‐producer households that is applied to rich data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness of a potential match as the difference between the potential value of consumption and leisure with the new partner and the value of consumption ...
Tópico(s): Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
2021 - Wiley | Quantitative Economics
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Selma Walther, Frédéric Vermeulen,
Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market. We define marital instability in terms of the consumption gains to remarrying another individual in the same marriage market, and to being ...
Tópico(s): Work-Family Balance Challenges
2016 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Ashley Larsen Gibby, Nancy Luke,
Standard survey measures of fertility preferences, such as the desire for and preferred timing of future births, do not capture the complexity of individuals' preferences. New research focuses on additional dimensions of emotions and expectations surrounding childbearing. Few quantitative studies, however, consider the influence of all three dimensions of fertility preferences concurrently. Using longitudinal survey data from the Tsogolo la Thanzi project (2009–2012) in Malawi, this study employed ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Maternal and Child Health Journal
Opening Paragraph This paper is about a problem which arises from James Clyde Mitchell's study of the Yao village in southern Malaŵi. When writing about the Yao, Mitchell drew our attention to their system of group segmentation which he portrayed as though it were perpetual in character (Mitchell 1952: 18-20). Here I analyse the implication of this process of group segmentation in a situation which is governed by administrative regulations that make it difficult for segmenting groups to spread as ...
Tópico(s): Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
1980 - Cambridge University Press | Africa
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Selma Walther, Frédéric Vermeulen,
Do individuals marry and divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the economic attractiveness of a person's marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness of a potential match as the difference between the potential value of consumption and leisure with the new partner and the value of consumption ...
Tópico(s): Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
2016 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Simon Haenni, Guilherme Lichand,
In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that legal age. We document that social image concerns are likely an important mechanism behind that wedge: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less altruistic, reciprocal and trustworthy than those who do. We then randomly assign 412 villages to a public donation drive, through which ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2020 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas T. Kim,
We study how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi. First, recent secondary school graduates were hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, half of the workers with career incentives randomly received wage incentives, and half of the workers with wage incentives randomly received career incentives. Career incentives attract higher-performing workers than wage incentives ...
Tópico(s): Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
2019 - The MIT Press | The Review of Economics and Statistics
This study inquired into the nature of identity among refugee youth living at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. Aged between eighteen and twenty-four, the sample comprised of twenty-two female (m = 20.18, sd = 1.89) and thirty-eight male (m = 21.68, sd = 1.92) participants, from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Somalia. The study hypothesized that the organizing structure of education and its related experiences fostered identity formation for the youth. The questions asked were: 1. How ...
Tópico(s): Jewish Identity and Society
2022 - Taylor & Francis | Diaspora Indigenous and Minority Education
Jenny Trinitapoli, Sara Yeatman,
... not simply random noise but frequently patterned. In Malawi, for example, the setting of our present study, ... provide change as well. In our context of Malawi, a wide array of conjunctures is known to ... Thanzi (TLT), a longitudinal study conducted in Balaka, Malawi designed to examine how, in the context of ... infection. Balaka is a bustling township located in Malawi's southern region at the crossroads between a ... Balaka are harsh. Despite the commercial activity, southern Malawi is poorer than the rest of the country. ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
2017 - Wiley | Population and Development Review
... 09594-8Jacob Kendall Religion and Health in Rural Malawi, Journal of Religion and Health 58, no.66 ( ... Migration and health at older age in rural Malawi, Global Public Health 13, no.1010 (Dec 2017): ... arrangements and health at older ages in rural Malawi, Ageing and Society 38, no.55 (Dec 2016): ... Migration Among Older Women and Men in Rural Malawi, Illness, Crisis & Loss 25, no.44 (Aug 2017): ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
1992 - University of Chicago Press | Economic Development and Cultural Change
... men of the benefits of FP. Ethiopia and Malawi achieved impressive progress too. DHS data show that ... and from 26 percent to 42 percent in Malawi between 2000 and 2010. The preliminary report of Malawi's 2015 survey estimates the modern CPR among ... more children: Rwanda 2010 and 2014–15 and Malawi 2004 and 2010. References Africa Union. 2015. " Agenda ...
Tópico(s): Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
2017 - Wiley | Population and Development Review
... case studies from four Eastern African countries—Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe—where there were large contextual ... wives' reports of recent intimate partner violence in Malawi, which may have to do with a long- ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2018 - Oxford University Press | Social Forces
... of Female Domestic Workers Living with Violence in Malawi, Issues in Mental Health Nursing 31, no.22 ( ... in the Lives of Female Domestic Workers in Malawi, Health Care for Women International 30, no.99 ( ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2001 - University of Chicago Press | Signs
Patrick Gerland, Ann Biddlecom, Vladimíra Kantorová,
... fertility between five and six births per woman (Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia). Eight ...
Tópico(s): Global Health Care Issues
2016 - Wiley | Population and Development Review
... substantial declines in wanted fertility (e.g., Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda). The mechanism through which this effect operates ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Genus
... information to make decisions? A field experiment in Malawi shows that, at baseline, parents' beliefs about their ...
Tópico(s): Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
2019 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... actors, including development NGOs. With case studies from Malawi, this paper shows how NGOs may inadvertently facilitate ...
Tópico(s): Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
2003 - Taylor & Francis | Development in Practice
... Local Private Universities in Increasing Labour Productivity in Malawi, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2014).https://doi.org/ ...
Tópico(s): Global Education and Multiculturalism
2006 - University of Chicago Press | Comparative Education Review
... job satisfaction among rural primary school teachers in Malawi, Rural Society 31, no.22 (Jun 2022): 101– ...
Tópico(s): Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
2005 - University of Chicago Press | Comparative Education Review