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Measuring inequality for the rural households of Eritrea using Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient
(IISTE, 2016)This paper attempts to accurately measure inequality. The large sample of consumption expenditure data taken from Eritrean rural household survey of 2009 allows the use of parameterized continuous functions of Lorenz Curve ... -
Measuring quality gaps in TB screening in South Africa using standardised patient analysis
(MDPI, 2018)This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices ... -
Measuring quality gaps in TB screening in South Africa using standardised patient analysis
(MPDI, 2018)This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices ... -
Measuring willingness-to-pay for water and sanitation by people living with HIV and AIDs in South Africa
(IWA Publishing, 2016)The ill-provision of water and sanitation services poses the greatest risk to people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa – a majority of whom reside in slum settlements. People living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) die ... -
Meat quality, skin damage and reproductive performance of ostriches exposed to extensive human presence and interactions at an early age
(Springer Nature, 2020)The effect human presence and interactions performed after hatch to 3 months of age has on ostrich meat quality, skin damage and reproductive performance at a later age was investigated in 416-day-old ostrich chicks. The ... -
Mediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2014)The formal system of local governance in South Africa has the ‘ward’ as its lowest and smallest electoral level — a spatial unit consisting of between 5,000 and 15,000 voters. The ward is equivalent to the ‘constituency’ ... -
The membership problem in people-centred approaches to natural resource management in Southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)Who should qualify to be a member of a natural resource management (NRM) programme in Southern Africa with the attendant benefits and responsibilities? In Zimbabwe, membership of such programmes could be described as ... -
Micro-perspective lens on entrepreneurs in the early stage of business: Expectations vis-à-vis realities
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)In the early stage of business, which is where most new ventures fail, many entrepreneurs experience discrepancies between their entrepreneurial expectations and business realities. These discrepancies referred to by this ... -
Migrant networks, food remittances, and Zimbabweans in Cape Town: a social media perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study examines the evolving connection between migrant networking on social media and cross-border food remittances in Southern Africa. Emerging research and academic debates have shown that social media platforms ... -
Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)During the post-liberalization period, contract farming schemes have become a recurrent feature of agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Contract farming is not a new phenomenon in the continent but it has gained ... -
Mining, capital and dispossession in Limpopo, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)This Working Paper explains the processes by which land, water and other natural resources were seized, and their previous users dispossessed, for the purposes of capital accumulation by Ivanplats platinum mining company ... -
The mining-conservation nexus: Rio Tinto, development ‘gifts’ and contested compensation in Madagascar
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This paper traces a genealogy of land access and legitimisation strategies culminating in the recent convergence of multinational mining and conservation in southeast Madagascar. Drawing on empirical research carried out ... -
Mixed methods research for health policy development in Africa: The case of identifying very poor households for health insurance premium exemptions in Ghana
(SAGE, 2019)Despite the utility of applying mixed methods research to understand complex phenomenon, few studies have applied this approach to health policy and in Africa. This article illustrates the application of mixed methods ... -
Model for stimulating entrepreneurial skills through entrepreneurship education in an African context
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The need to stimulate entrepreneurial skills in graduates as a strategy for tackling graduate unemployment has spurred the introduction of entrepreneurship education programs. The effectiveness of such entrepreneurship ... -
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ... -
Money channel of monetary policy transmission in Namibia
(The Institute for International Economics, 2020)There is an argument that being in an exchange rate pegging arrangement limits the scope of using interest rate to control money supply to affect output or inflation but here is a point of contention in the case of ... -
The Monster from the Green Lagoon Assessing the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform
(2011)Background • Consensus across the board that LR is in deep trouble and unlikely to meet targets • Some argue that food security is of rising concern, given rising food prices (here and globally) • Minister Nkwinti: ... -
More than socially embedded: The distinctive character of ‘communal tenure’ regimes in South Africa and its implications for land policy
(Wiley, 2007)This article analyzes debates over tenure reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on the controversial Communal Land Rights Act of 2004. Land tenure systems in the ... -
More to life than economics and livelihoods: The politics of social protection and social development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-03)In the past fifteen years the South African government has consistently tried to address chronic and structural poverty, using a variety of policy and programmatic interventions with uneven success. But, as the latest ... -
Mose: A Mobile Application for Women Street Vendors in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)psychological and many other forms of abuse. This trait is more prominent in African homes and especially poor African homes [1]. Despite women's contribution to society, they are still seen as inferior and the gender ...