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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Malawi.

1. 1. A Genealogy of Governing Economic Behaviour : Small-scale credit in Malawi 1930–2010

   Författare :Johanna Värlander; Sofia Murhem; Göran Salmonsson; Torbjörn Engdahl; Maria Eriksson Baaz; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governmentality; small-scale credit; microcredit; Malawi; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis the aim has been to analyse changes and continuity in the governing of economic behaviour in small-scale credit schemes in colonial Nyasaland and independent Malawi from 1930 until 2010. Furthermore, how the effects of history in terms of how colonial and post-colonial development discourses and practices have been rephrased and reused in the early 21st century are discussed. LÄS MER

3. 2. Making it happen : prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in rural Malawi

   Författare :Fyson Kasenga; Anna-Karin Hurtig; Maria Emmelin; Thorkild Tylleskär; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HIV; PMTCT; maternal services; Malamulo SDA Hospital; Malawi; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

   Sammanfattning : The devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS have caused untold harm and human suffering globally. Over 33 million people worldwide are estimated to be living with HIV and AIDS and a majority of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. Women and children are more infected particularly in sub-Saharan countries. LÄS MER

4. 3. Peasant proudction and limits to labour Thyolo and Mzimba Districts in Malawi, mid-1930s to late-1970s

   Författare :Erik Green; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; production; peasant; Malawi; Africa; accumulation; agriculture; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : The persistence of a low productive peasant sector in sub-Saharan Africa is one of the enigmas of development research. This study approaches the question from a historical perspective by analysing the paths of agrarian change in two contrasting cases in Malawi from the mid-1930s to the late 1970s. LÄS MER

5. 4. Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality

   Författare :Annika Lindskog; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; Malawi; Ethiopia; HIV AIDS; Inequality; Fertility; Mortality; Education; Within-household spillovers; Credit constraints; Diversification; Uncertainty; Redistribution; Fairness;

   Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighbourhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. LÄS MER

7. 5. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security

   Författare :Cheryl Sjöström; LUCSUS; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global food system; smallholder food security; sub-Saharan Africa; agricultural modernization; critical discourse analysis; power; politics of food; Millennium Villages Project; Malawi;

   Sammanfattning : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. LÄS MER