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Waste management practices amongst small businesses in the townships of Gauteng province in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Isaac Tebogo Rampedi, Dorothea Christina Schoeman, Phyllis Rumbidzai Kwenda
This paper investigated waste management practices of small businesses in the selected townships of Gauteng province, South Africa. Surveys were conducted by means of questionnaire-administered int...
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Policy uncertainty, mergers, and acquisitions in the South African business environment Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Anton van Wyk, Raymond Parsons, Lodewalt Venter
This study examines policy uncertainty on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in South Africa, emphasising the extensive regulatory review by the Competition Commission under the ‘public interest consid...
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Inclusion of Namibian rural communities in green energy access and use: Requirements elicitation or community-based-co-design? Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Chris Muashekele, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Alphons Koruhama
Energy exclusion is prevalent throughout Africa, leading to a myriad of energy access projects, technologies, interventions and approaches being explored to address a phenomenon affecting over half...
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Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Harald Winkler, Anthony Black
South Africa faces huge challenges of poverty and unemployment, yet at the same time, needs to make a contribution to climate action. Historically, our pattern of development gave rise to the ‘mine...
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The impact of commercial agriculture on household food and nutrition security in Lesotho Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Nkoko Nthabeleng, Cronje Natasha, Swanepoel Jan Willem
Transitioning from subsistence to commercial agriculture is a developmental approach to alleviate poverty. The study assessed the contribution of commercial agriculture on household food and nutrit...
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Struggles over elder care in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Elena Moore, Gabrielle Kelly
This paper examines the tensions and struggles over elder care that are happening in South Africa between family caregivers, care workers and the state. These struggles are experienced and expresse...
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From recovery to resilience building in tourism Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Tembi M. Tichaawa, Jarkko Saarinen
Published in Development Southern Africa (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2024)
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Inequity in antenatal care quality in Zimbabwe: The role of women’s empowerment Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Abigail Chari, Trust Gangaidzo
The health systems fail to provide quality antenatal health services to vulnerable and marginalised pregnant women regardless of their effectiveness in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. Des...
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Understanding changing patterns in travel behaviour to support domestic tourism recovery and resilience Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Urmilla Bob, Dinolen Gounden
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the tourism sector, disrupting travel and centralising a shift towards domestic tourism. This study examines the changing preferences and demands of trav...
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COVID-19 impacts on nature-based tourism-dependent small towns: St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Rivoni Gounden, Suveshnee Munien, Urmilla Bob
Africa’s conservation areas are world-renowned, contributing to local and regional livelihoods. The town of St Lucia is located in the isiMangaliso Wetland Park (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is an ...
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Transitioning wastewater treatment plants towards resource recovery: Challenges and opportunities in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Roberta Mavugara, Mark Matsa, Rameck Defe
Developing countries still lag in transitioning wastewater treatment plants towards resource recovery. This study assessed the challenges hindering and opportunities enabling the implementation of ...
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How a spending review of compensation spending changed government policy in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Antony Altbeker, Hermi Boraine
This paper examines the influence of compensation spending reviews on government policy by analysing the case of South Africa, focusing on an extended review of the drivers of payroll costs. It add...
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Effects of poverty challenges on youth learnership success Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Matolwandile Mtotywa, Moipone Motaung
People who live in poverty struggle to focus on the future as they are forced to deal with their current challenges, which can impact the learner during learnership programmes. The study investigat...
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Beyond ‘white monopoly capital’: Understanding race, control, and cohesion in the South African corporate elite Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Niall Reddy
White monopoly capital’ (WMC) has become one of the most ubiquitous terms in the South African political lexicon, bolstered by a re-energised nationalist movement. Its rise has been the occasion fo...
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Estimating the economic multipliers for wildlife-based tourism in Zambia Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Grant Simuchimba, James N Blignaut, Espen Sjaastad
We derived 2015 wildlife-based tourism multipliers for the rural area of Zambia where input-output tables (I-OT) are unavailable. To estimate multipliers in a data-poor environment, the national di...
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Socio-economic development impacts, attendant challenges and mitigation measures of infrastructure vandalism in Southern Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Ishmael Mugari, Emeka Emmanuel Obioha
This paper explores the scourge of infrastructure vandalism in South Africa and Zimbabwe, with a particular focus on electricity and rail transport companies within the two countries. The paper sou...
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Labour market trends in South Africa in 2009–19: A lost decade? Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Charles Adams, Derek Yu
While the South African labour market showed some signs of improvement in the 2000s with unemployment rate gradually dropping to as low as 22.7% at the end of 2007, things unfortunately turned down...
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Foreign ownership and firm performance: Evidence from the South African informal sector Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Segun Thompson Bolarinwa, Munacinga Simatele, Forget Kapingura
This paper investigates the effect of foreign ownership on firm performance in the South African informal sector. Using the data of 1097 informal businesses sourced from the World Bank Enterprises ...
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Residents’ perceptions of sustainable heritage tourism development in a rural municipality Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Madiseng M. Phori, Uwe P. Hermann, Leanne Grobbelaar
This research investigates the perceptions of rural communities in the Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa, towards sustainable heritage tourism development. It aims to comprehe...
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The path to resilience in sport event tourism: South African stakeholder responses to a crisis Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Tracy Daniels, Tembi Maloney Tichaawa
This study sought to determine how South African sport tourism stakeholders responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at sustainable pathways to building a resilient sport event tourism sector. I...
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Government transfers, municipal financial performance, and access to improved sanitation in urban South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Genius Murwirapachena, Zvikomborero Nyamazunzu
This study examines the impact of national government transfers and municipal financial performance on access to sanitation in South Africa. The study uses fixed and random effects models to analys...
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Demistifying employment in South Africa's Just Energy Transition: Exploring emerging decent work themes Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Nthabiseng Mohlakoana, Alboricah Rathupetsane, Boitumelo Malope, Merin Jacob
The South African energy sector is faced with competing priorities concerned with ensuring environmental sustainability, energy security, and balancing its citizens’ socio-economic needs. The decar...
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Correction Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Published in Development Southern Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A comparative analysis of responses to the COVID-19 tourism disruptions among small, medium and micro enterprises in coastal locations: Case studies of Cape Town and Durban, South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ntwademela S. Perry, Amanda Gumede, Suveshnee Munien
Tourism businesses at coastal locations contribute to job creation and local economic development. There is limited research on COVID-19 and Coastal and Marine Tourism (CMT) Small, Medium and Micro...
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A critical review of the socio-cultural, economic and environmental impacts of ecotourism in Ghana Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Frederick Dayour, Ahmed Abubakari, Issahaku Adam, Simon Awintuuma Ndewin
This study aims to critically review the impacts of ecotourism in Ghana by synthesising the socio-cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of ecotourism. It relied on databases including Web o...
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Tourism resilience and challenges in Limpopo, South Africa: A post-COVID-19 analysis Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kaitano Dube, Godwell Nhamo
This study investigates the impact, recovery and resilience of COVID-19 on South Africa's Limpopo Province's tourism industry. The study utilises surveys (n = 115) and interviews (n = 50) to examin...
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Integrating decision analysis into South Africa's spending review methodology Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Amanda Jitsing
In 2016, the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) delivered training on the spending review methodology. During the training, it became evident that officials were not accustomed to analysin...
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Effectiveness of public health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa: The moderating role of health system efficiency Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba
Public health spending (PHS) has been extensively investigated concerning population health outcomes (PHO), but its effectiveness has been less analysed. To this end, this study examines the associ...
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children: The case of Tanzania Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kasper Brandt, Longinus Rutasitara, Onesmo Selejio, Neda Trifkovic
This paper examines the contribution of household non-farm enterprises (NFEs) to human capital development in children, measured through child labour and schooling. We use nationally representative...
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Leveraging social capital for the recovery and regeneration of the ecotourism sector in Cameroon Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Vyasha Harilal, Tembi Maloney Tichaawa
This paper examines leveraging social capital to regenerate the ecotourism sector in Cameroon. Using a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were held with local community leaders, governmental...
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Collaborative actions of MICE stakeholders toward sector recovery and resilience Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Refiloe Julia Lekgau, Tembi Maloney Tichaawa
This article examines the collaborative actions taken by key stakeholders in the meetings, incentive travel, conference/convention, and exhibition (MICE) sector of South Africa in enabling sector r...
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Spending reviews’ capacity-building initiatives: Reflections on the experience and methodologies employed Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Mbali Buthelezi
This study aims to reflect on the spending reviews’ capacity-building initiatives undertaken over the years, the experience and methodology employed. It discusses the feedback collected from survey...
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Towards an integrated framework for sustainable sport tourism development in Central Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Siyabulela Nyikana, Tembi Maloney Tichaawa
This study develops an integrated framework for the development of sport tourism, using Cameroon as a case study. A qualitative research approach was used to critically analyse existing sport touri...
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COVID-19 disruptions and education in South Africa: Two years of evidence Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Gabrielle Wills, Servaas van der Berg
This paper provides an overview of learning losses and altered schooling patterns in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Five major trends emerge from a review of the evidence. T...
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Mothers’ education and childhood anaemia in Uganda Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Faisal Buyinza, Anber Muhammod
This article employs ordered probit to examine the effect mother’s education and other socio-economic and community factors on the prevalence of childhood anaemia in urban and rural areas and sever...
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Does instructional leadership drive educational improvement in South Africa? Evidence from Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Dumisani Macdonald Hompashe
Quality school leadership and management are important determinants of teaching and learning quality. According to South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP), principals should provide administ...
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Community-based peer mentorship improves academic performance: Evidence from Makhanda, South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Duke Mwedzi
Despite high rates of education expenditure, South Africa's education system remains sharply unequal and underperforms overall compared to other countries. One approach to addressing education ineq...
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Southern Africa’s post-COVID-19 tourism industry recovery plans: Reality or rhetoric? Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sylvester O. Ilo, Sonali Das, Felix G. Bello
The adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global tourism industry necessitated several responses from policymakers in order to support the industry’s recovery and post-pandemic growth. So...
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The determinants of labour productivity in the Eastern Cape Province: A sectoral and industry analysis Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Clement Moyo, Syden Mishi, Ronney Ncwadi
The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of labour productivity in the Eastern Cape. Furthermore, the study estimates the determinant of labour productivity from a sectoral and indu...
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Rethinking South Africa’s household energy poverty through the lens of off-grid energy transition Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Blessings Masuku
South Africa’s has been battling with energy crisis for many years, and with the ongoing power cuts, the nation has been plunged into darkness experienced almost every day in major cities such as J...
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Community-based natural resource management and social exclusion in Zimbabwe Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Vincent Jani, Nigel L. Webb, Anton H. de Wit
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), which is aimed at ensuring meaningful participation of rural communities in decision-making and promoting sustainable utilisation of natural res...
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Youth Employability programmes in South Africa: Which features work best and for whom? Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Zoheb Khan, Leila Patel, Lauren Graham, Rulof Burger, Gina A. Chowa, Rainier Masa
This article analyses a subset of eight youth employability programmes (YEPs) operating across South Africa using a panel survey of participants. It assesses the features of these YEPs and their li...
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Voting and protest tendencies associated with changes in service delivery Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Tina Fransman, Marisa von Fintel
Existing literature highlights the complexities of the relationship between voting, protest action and service delivery within Southern African democracies. We explore the relationship between thes...
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Unintended consequences of climate change adaptation: African case studies and typologies on pitfalls and windfalls Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Verena Helen van Zyl-Bulitta, Anthony Patt, Shakespear Mudombi, Christo Fabricius
Climate change adaptation concerns mechanisms for responding to local climate change impacts to improve livelihoods of and decrease risks to affected stakeholders. In this article, we present evide...
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Residential relocation and financial wellbeing: Findings from Golden Gardens housing development in Gauteng, South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Koech Cheruiyot
With mega state housing projects needing large land parcels and that are often located in the periphery, this paper investigates what impact relocating residents to Golden Gardens housing developme...
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Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Farirai Rusere, Lori Hunter, Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine
This study examines patterns and trends in household food security in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 2010 to 2019. We use data from a household panel nested in the Agincourt...
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Petty corruption experiences and xenophobic violence in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Steven Lawrence Gordon
Past studies have shown that corruption can promote conflict and instability. However, the capacity for corruption to influence anti-immigrant violence has received little academic attention. This ...
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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Kwadwo Opoku, Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Emmanuel Adu Boahen
We use the Tanzania Integrated Labour Force Survey data and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment i...
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COVID-19 emergency income grant and food security in Namibia Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Emmanuel Orkoh, Evelina Nghishikomesho Hasholo, Frank Gyimah Sackey, Richard K. Asravor
This paper evaluates the effects of the government's COVID-19 economic stimulus and relief package (emergency/one-off income grant of ND750) on household food security in Namibia during the period ...
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From zero-base budgeting to spending review – achievements and challenges Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Richard Allen, Robert Clifton
This paper traces the development of spending reviews from their origins in a set of budgetary innovations in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s – notably zero-base budgeting (ZBB) and Planni...
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The government wage bill: Employment and compensation trends in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Michael Sachs, Arabo Ewinyu, Olwethu Shedi
ABSTRACT This paper reviews government employment and compensation trends using data derived from the government's payroll. Employment levels and average pay grew strongly in the 2000s, but in the last decade, headcounts have stagnated or fallen, and increases in average pay have been moderate. The distribution of pay between government employees is compressed, especially when compared to income inequalities
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Policy on trial: Participatory vs neo-liberal development Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Charlize Tomaselli, Jacques P. de Wet
This paper examines the conflict in South African government development policy and law between a people-centred participatory approach and a neoliberal growth-centred approach. In particular, we d...
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Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Stefano Farolfi, Damien Jourdain, Eric Mungatana, Nicky Nicholls, Marc Willinger, Eleni Yitbarek
Much of the research on behavioural preferences as predictors of compliance with regulations aimed at reducing the transmission of COVID-19 has focused on developed countries, with very little cons...
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Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011 Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Amy Thornton
In South Africa, households were formed at about twice the rate that the population grew be-tween census 1996 and census 2011 and the number of single-person households ballooned by 150%. Reweighte...
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‘It’s a disaster, nobody is coming’: International travel bans’ effect on Cape Town's informal traders Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Alicia Fourie, Derick Blaauw, Vickey De Villiers
The COVID-19 crisis has been one of the most significant events in recent history. Informal traders who depend on a thriving tourist market have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19. The resultan...
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Critical factors for restructuring the education system during the era of the fourth industrial revolution in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 M. M. Mtotywa, M.A. Seabi, Thulani J. Manqele, Smilo P. Ngwenya, Mankodi Moetsi
The study aims to determine factors important in restructuring the education system to meet the skills demand required during the era of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0). The study u...
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Using models to cost government policies and programmes in South Africa Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Conrad Barberton, Jonathan Carter
ABSTRACT The purpose of costing new and existing government programmes is to mobilise and systematise information to present different options for how to move forward. There has always been a need for such information, and this need will remain, given the imperatives to improve the use of government funds to meet social needs. It is therefore important to build capacity in government to do costing
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Gender analysis of labour force outcomes: Evidence from Cameroon Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Jean C. Kouam, Simplice A. Asongu, Robert Nantchouang, Denis Foretia
The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how financial and human developments moderate the incidence of vulnerable female employment on female labour force participation ...
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Remarriage timing and its associated factors among women in rural Malawi Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Emmanuel F. Souza
This study examines the timing of and factors associated with remarriages in rural Malawi after the first marital dissolution. Data come from the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health co...
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COVID-19 and sexual reproductive health service utilisation among women of reproductive age in Zambia Development Southern Africa (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Million Phiri, Clifford Odimegwu, Harriet Namukoko, Yemi Adewoyin, Simona Simona
Zambia has made improvements in addressing maternal and child health in the past two decades. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which could put a strain on the healthcare systems and alter how access...