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Malawi has been facing forex challenges due to perpetual Balance of Payments (BoP) problems emanating from insufficient trade activities both within and beyond Africa. It is in this vein that this study employed the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) method to estimate the gravity equation of international trade between Malawi and the rest... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2023
Author: Siyasiya, Murry Supervisor(s): Patrick KambewaIn the presence of time-varying treatment exposures and confounders, Marginal structural models with inverse probability treatment weights (MSM-IPTWs) are used to control for confounder variable imbalances in the estimation of causal effects in longitudinal observational studies. However, these methods have largely been developed for univariate ... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2023
Author: Twabi, Halima Sumayya Supervisor(s): Samuel BandaOne of the significant problems the world faces today is the rate at which road traffic accidents and deaths on the roads are happening. The majority of these accidents occur in developing countries (Ihueze & Onwurah, 2018), and Malawi is no exception. However, to supplement the current safety measures, an analysis of road traffic accidents usin... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: School of Natural and Applied Sciences Supervisor(s): Kondwani Godwin MunthaliOver the past three decades, the manufacturing sector of Malawi has not been performing well despite contribution from both foreign and domestic investment. Hence, this study examined the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment on manufacturing output in Malawi. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model cointegration ... Read more
School: School of Arts, Communication and Design
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Banda P.M. Supervisor(s): Jacob MazalaleLeadership is complex and has enormous dimensions. Leadership has to be well researched and understood in order to deploy its relevant models to fight corruption. Corruption is increasingly seen as pivot on which, depending on their response to it, societies rise, decline, or even collapse(Johnston, 1995).This research study is aimed to assess r... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Nkhoma, Buba Dyson Damalansakwi Supervisor(s): Happy KayuniTalent management and employee retention are one of the challenges facing many organizations in both public and private sectors. Retention of talented employees has become an even greater challenge confronting human resource practitioners. Organisations in Malawi are operating in a highly competitive environment owing to today’s rapidly moving d... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Mazulu, Asante Annet Supervisor(s): Happy KayuniMalawi is a landlocked country located in south-east Africa which became a democracy in 1994. Malawi practices multi-party which promotes local governments and provides for democratic governance of the people at the local level. In the climate of today‘s society, gender and identity are issues that are highly discussed and contended for a mirage... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Msiska, Yapikachi Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaBinary logistic regression model is applied in many public health studies, that involve binary response variable such as presence or absence of diarrhoea in a child. In such applications, most studies in literature have focused on inferences and implications on relevant policies. There has been little effort to exhaustively understand the fit of... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Luwemba, Mphatso Supervisor(s): Tsirizani KaombeThe overall performance of social security programs, including employment pensions depends on effective enforcement of relevant regulations. Successful implementation of the Pension Act in Malawi hinges on effectiveness of the strategies employed by the state to enforce compliance through the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) as a regulator, in corro... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Lupande, Kingsley Clement Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaThis paper investigates the link between Facebook use and political participation among Malawian youths. The youths are taking advantage of Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, which are enabled by the second generation of the web (web 2.0), which allows Internet users to collaborate and share information online. SNSs are dialogical, ak... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kainja, Sellina Nyankowani Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaPerplexed as to why despite embracing Performance Management Systems (PMS) the public sector is still not performing, this research set out to answer this question. The research examined the phenomena not in isolation, rather, as a comparative case study. It examined PMS as approached, perceived and managed through the lens of two institutions; ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Dzimbiri, Lewis Jnr Supervisor(s): Tiyesere Mercy ChikapaThe famous Cox proportional hazard model is applied in most medical research studies that involve time to event data like mass oral azithromycin for the reduction of childhood mortality. Literature has shown that this model overestimates estimates in the presence of time varying covariates. This thesis compared the Cox proportional hazard model ... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Chisambi, Alvin Blessings Supervisor(s): Mavuto MukakaThe purpose of this study was to explore primary school teachers’ use of Continuous Assessment (CA) in supporting the teaching and learning of Social studies in the context of Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) in Malawi. This was in an effort to seek a deeper understanding of how CA is used to support learning. The study was informed by the followi... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Chiziwa, Wezzie Kaduzu Maxwell Chiume Supervisor(s): Esthery Dembo KunkwenzuChanges in the macroeconomic environment of many countries throughout the world have had a significant impact on stock market behaviour. Financial markets play a critical part in economic development in today's globe. Economic participants keep an eye on the economy as well as the stock markets. As a result, the study looked at the short- and l... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Chalera, Chimwemwe Supervisor(s): Spy MunthaliOne of the significant problems the world faces today is the rate at which road traffic accidents and deaths on the roads are happening. The majority of these accidents occur in developing countries (Ihueze & Onwurah, 2018), and Malawi is no exception. However, to supplement the current safety measures, an analysis of road traffic accidents usin... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Phiri, Chikumbutso Felix Supervisor(s): Kondwani Godwin MunthaliThere is a dynamic interface between fresh groundwater and saline ocean water in coastal regions worldwide, known as the fresh-saltwater interface, where salt and freshwater mix caused by natural and anthropogenic activities. The interface migrates inland in a saltwater intrusion process, which further results in salinization and can have signif... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Banda, Tryness Supervisor(s): Zuze DulanyaAgainst the claim that democracy influences good policy due to competition, this thesis argues that competition in young fragmented democracies brings insecurity to ruling regimes and this influences introduction and implementation of short term policies including poorly designed subsidy policies aimed at getting votes. A comparative analysis of... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Alfazema, Clemence Chiposa Supervisor(s): Wiseman Chijere ChirwaLeadership has become a pivot in education policy discourse. Instructional leadership has been recognised as one of the important leadership models in the school. Heads of Department are instructional leaders within their departments. However, not much is known about what they understand and do as instructional leaders in the schools and what th... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Mazalale, Ellen Ndeule Supervisor(s): Elizabeth KamchedzeraInstitutions are at the center of any development process. This study makes an analysis of the role institutions play in the process of agrarian change. Additionally, the study provides a conceptual linkage of institutions and agrarian change, starting with the classical debates of agrarian change and development and how institutional formations... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Nkhono-Mvula, Tamani Supervisor(s): Happy KayuniIlliteracy is a big hindrance to socio- economic development worldwide. Malawi is among sub-Saharan African countries that have high illiteracy levels among both men and women. As such, the government introduced the Functional Adult Literacy Programme (FALP) in 1986 to combat this problem. Furthermore, the programme has an empowerment component ... Read more
School: School of Arts, Communication and Design
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Kaneka, Briscoe Precious Supervisor(s): Hendrina Kachapila-Mazizwa