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Despite the potential of pigeon pea as an alternative cash crop, no adequate information on spatial market integration of the product has been documented. Motivated by wide pigeon price margins among spatially separated markets in the country this study conducted an economic analysis of the spatial integration of pigeon pea markets in Malawi. A ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Katunga, Admire Supervisor(s): Levison ChiwaulaThis study investigated the impact of the universal subsidy program on households in Mwandama millennium villages in the Zomba district of Malawi. This was done by comparing yield before the agriculture intervention and after the intervention. There is a clear yield difference between the before the intervention period and the after the interven... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Mtika, Alick Galimoto Stephens Supervisor(s): Ben KaluwaThe study analyses the transmission of food price shocks to households in Zimbabwe. Studies examining the impact of food price shocks on households, especially in Africa, during the recent global food crisis look at the magnitude and incidence of the impact on either poverty prevalence or cost of living without attempting to decomposem impact mu... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Marire, Juniors Supervisor(s): Levison ChiwaulaThe study examines the factors that influence a household’s likelihood of facing credit constraints in formal credit markets in Malawi using cross section data from the 2008 Finscope Survey. Following a direct approach and employing logit model suggested by Jappelli (1990), the study has been able to investigate the factors that influence credit... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Banda, Benjamin Bisa Supervisor(s): Ronald ManganiThis thesis explores the productivity of workers as related to the use of Oracle Enterprise Resources Planning Systems at the Reserve Bank of Malawi. This study topic was influenced after considering that the bank had made considerable investment in ERP systems with the overall aim of improving productivity inclusive the worker productivity. A m... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: School of Law, Economics and Government Supervisor(s): Lewis DzimbiriThis thesis explores the African America racial and sexual polarization as portrayed in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Meridian, Possessing the Secret of Joy and selected stories from In Love and Trouble: Stories about Black Women and You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down. The study argues that both racism and sexism spring from the self’s cupidity... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Mazinga, Martino Kamwano Supervisor(s): Brighton KamangaThe purpose of this study was to assess the role that the school environment has played in enhancing female participation in decision making positions in SEED in Malawi. Gender policies aim at removing imbalances and disparities among men and women. One would wonder why women participation in decision making was still low. It was worthy finding... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Nanthambwe, Alayika Agnes Emerald Supervisor(s): Dixie Maluwa-BandaLinguists and educational psychologists agree that the best medium of instruction for initial primary school education is the mother tongue. In Malawi, the medium of instruction for initial primary school education i.e. standards 1 to 4, is Chichewa which is not necessarily the mother tongue of every Malawian. Despite the fact that Chichewa is t... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Thodi, Mario Simeon Supervisor(s): Edrinnie KayambazinthuAloes, socio-economically important plants in the world, are mostly used for medicines. In Malawi, Aloes are threatened because of loss of habitats due to high population growth rate, poverty, agriculture expansion and unsustainable utilization. This study mapped out occurrences of Aloes in Malawi in order to note widely and rare species and als... Read more
School: School of Natural and Applied Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Mkwapatira, Gladys Chipiliro Supervisor(s): E.Y. SamboIt has been hypothesised that the degree of specialization in Intra Industry Trade (IIT) is highly correlated with the level of a country’s development. Therefore, since specialization mostly characterizes manufacturing goods and not primary commodity exports of which countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are mainly depe... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Mulenga, Mulenga Chonzi Supervisor(s): Exley SilumbuThis study assesses the effects of the interaction between chieftaincy and the democratic state institutions namely MPs and local councilors on the democratic consolidation process. The aim of the study is to determine whether the interaction between chiefs on the one hand and MPs and local councillors on the other promotes the democratic values... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: School of Humanities and Social SciencesThe study seeks to identify factors that determine electoral support in re-electing presidential candidates in Malawi. This follows re-election of presidential candidates of incumbent political parties in Malawi from 1994 to 2009 amid the general discontent of personal living conditions and the higher disapproval rates of the general economic co... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Matita, Francis Fashio Supervisor(s): Lise RaknerThis study was aimed at analyzing the distribution of wages along gender lines in Malawi. In particular, the study aimed at estimating the gender wage gap, examining the trends in the gender wage gap between 1998 and 2005 and evaluating the effect of education on the gender wage gap. This study was also aimed at unearthing possible sources of th... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Mughogho, Tamara Esther Supervisor(s): Ephraim ChirwaThe democratic transition that Malawi experienced in early 1990s was part of the so called third wave of democratization that started in 1974 (Huntington 1991). In Malawi, civil society organisations were part of the movement that championed and managed the transitional process from one party to a multi party state. Since then, they have continu... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Chisi, Peter CyprianoFollowing the severe morbidity burden in Malawi as evidenced by the World Health Organization in their yearly World Health Statistics, the study was aimed at assessing the cost of illness on agriculture production as the most reliable livelihood source for households in rural Zomba. The study used primary data and employed the Individual Househo... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Khangamwa, Lauryn Kuwala Supervisor(s): Patrick KambewaThis study examines the context or historical processes in which post colonial educational policies in Malawi were formulated between 1964 and 1994. It argues that the political, economic and social contexts play an important role in policy formulation. The analysis is based on the examination of the background to the formulation of the policies... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Bulala-Chiponda, Anne F. Supervisor(s): Hendrina Kachapila-MazizwaThis study investigated factors affecting women’s participation in primary school headship position. The study’s sample comprised nine female and nine male head teachers, 35 female and 33 male teachers, 48 (24 female and 24 male) Standard 8 pupils from 18 primary schools in Lilongwe District, and six key informants. The head teachers and key inf... Read more
School: School of Education
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Kalizang'oma, Rose Josephine Dangalira Mwansambo Supervisor(s): Charles ChilimampungaThis study is about decentralization and Corruption in Malawi. It looks at the role of Political decentralization in facilitating corruption in Malawi by drawing on experiences from three local Assemblies of Lilongwe City, Dedza Town and Nkhotakota District. In doing so the study also explores the link between decentralization and corruption in ... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Minofu, John Andrew Benjamin Supervisor(s): Asiyati Lorraine ChiwezaPresidential elections since the dawn of plural politics in Malawi in 1994 have been generally described by electoral scholars as ethnic census. Whilst the influence of ethnicity on presidential electoral preference has been widely acknowledged especially in rural constituencies, the influence of ethnicity on the electoral behavior of Malawian u... Read more
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Thindwa, Ernest Lameck MutuwazgobvuThis thesis examines Malawi’s foreign policy towards Southern Africa from 1964 to 2007. The paper assesses the political and economic factors and also leadership perception in the shaping of Malawi’s foreign policy in the Southern African regional sub-system. The study uses the dependency and realist approaches to analyses the domestic and inter... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2010
Author: Sagawa, Mukuse Daniel