Search results for "Malawi"

Doctors of body, soul and society : Scottish medical missionaries of the Livingstonia mission in Nyasaland 1875-1914

2000

User charges for education : the ability ans willingness to pay in Malawi

1984

Investment in education is generally recognized to be essential for a country's long-term economic and social development. However, presentmacroeconomic conditions in many developing countries have obliged their governments to slow down increases in the allocation of public resources for education. As a result, the education sector is likely to develop only slowly, if at all; enrollment, already low in the poorer of the developing countries, would remain low, while the social demand for education would continue to be substantially unmet. In this setting, policy makers have recently focussed their attention on finding alternative sources of finance for education, one of which is the tapping …

The cost-effectiveness of mass media for agricultural extension in Malawi

1983

Ouvrage disponible sur : http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/999271468770338179/pdf/multi-page.pdf; International audience; This paper reports the results of research concerning the role of massmedia in providing information to Malawian farmers. To set the context, the paper begins with a brief description of the face-to-face information services provided by the agricultural extension system and by the farmer training centers; it then describes in more detail the operations of the Extension Aids Branch (EAB) of the Ministry of Agriculture. EAB prepares and delivers messages to farmers using radio, print, and mobile vans(carrying films for night-time use and puppet shows for daytime u…

Expanding education through user charges : what can be achieved in Malawi and other LDCs ?

1986

International audience; Two features mark the education sector in many LDCs today: first, education is publicly provided; and second. governments are faced with severe financial constraints. As a result, enrollmrnts are confined to low Ievels, and there is excess demand. To mitigate these adverse outcomes, we consider user charges as a means to mobilize additional resources for education. Under the circumstances that characterize most LDCs. we show that (i) families are willing to pay for education: (ii) the resources collected through user charges could finance a sizable expansion of education; and (iii) scholarships can offset the equity effects of user charges.

Heterogeneous effects of sustainable agriculture practices: micro-evidence from Malawi

2020

Abstract Are the effects of sustainable agricultural practices heterogeneous across agro-ecology and wealth in Malawi? Would a wealth-enhancing policy be associated with increased effectiveness of these practices? Focusing on a nationally representative set of Malawian agricultural households, the article answers the above questions by employing plot-level panel data matched with a set of geo-referenced rainfall and temperature records. The findings suggest a positive correlation between aggregate yield and the adoption of organic fertilizer. A similar result holds for legume intercropping and for hybrid seeds, which are associated to reductions in yield volatility between the two waves. Ne…

The cost-effectiveness of distance teaching for school equivalency

1984

International audience

Transgresión moral, enfermedad y salud holística en la Misión Livingstonia en Malawi a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX

2009

This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new ‘moral hygiene’ among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.

Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twenttieth-century Malawi

2009

This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new ‘moral hygiene’ among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.<br><br>Este artículo analiza las ideas sobre moralidad y salud, así como las relaciones entre transgre…

National context and teacher characteristics : Exploring the critical non-cognitive attributes of novice teachers in four countries

2018

The purpose of this article was to examine what education professionals in four countries (England, Finland, Malawi, and Oman) deemed as the critical (i.e., most important for effective teaching) non-cognitive attributes of novice teachers. Results from an iterative comparative case study showed that participants consistently judged certain attributes of novice teachers as critical, i.e., empathy, organization, and resilience. However, there was also differential importance placed on teachers’ relationships with the community, reflecting theorized cultural differences. The findings provide new insight into how national and cultural context are associated with the perceptions of the critical…

Anti-inflammatory activity of saikosaponins from Heteromorpha trifoliata.

1995

By means of activity-directed chromatographic fractionation using the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol acetate (TPA)-induced edema test, two saikosaponins were isolated from the MeOH extract of Heteromorpha trifoliata leaves. They were identified as 16 beta, 23-dihydroxy-13,28-epoxyolean-11-en-3 beta-yl-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->2)]-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->3)]-beta-D-fucopyranoside [1] and 16 beta, 23,28-trihydroxy-11 alpha-methoxyolean-12-en-3 beta-yl-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->2)]-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->3) [beta-D-fucopyranoside [2]. Compound 1 showed activity in the TPA and ethylphenylpropiolate (EPP) mouse ear edema and the serotonin paw edema tests, whereas compound 2 was active o…