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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 Mathambo |
| 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. |
