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Title:Family Transfers in a Subsistence Economy and under a High Incidence of HIV/AIDS: The Case of Rural Malawi
Author:Mtika, Mike MathamboISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Volume:21
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:69-92
Language:English
Geographic term:Malawi
Subjects:subsistence economy
household budget
family
AIDS
households
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Health and Nutrition
Economics and Trade
External links:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000305453
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=5A3D9DRUTC11BPHWP2G0
Abstract:Based on quantitative and qualitative data from the Malawi Family Transfers research conducted in 1999, the author explores the patterns of transfers among close relatives (prime-age adults to and from their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children) in rural Malawi. The evidence suggests that prime-age adults are central to vertical or intergenerational resource transfers (resource flows upward to their parents and downward to their children) and lateral or generational resource exchanges (respondent exchanges with their brothers and sisters). The giving-receiving ratios and net flows indicate that children have the highest claim over their parents' resources and reciprocate the least, followed by mothers, then brothers and sisters, and lastly fathers. The findings generally support the embodied capital investment proposition about the differential involvement in social, economic, and biological reproduction by children, the middle generation, and the old. The research did not establish the effect of HIV/AIDS on transfers vis-à-vis embodied capital investment. However, since HIV/AIDS mostly strikes prime-age adults, the key players in transfers and embodied capital investment processes, the epidemic is striking the core of the resource flow system in subsistent economies. Bibliogr., notes.
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