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The choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africa
(2013)
South Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, ...
Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)
(Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)
Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ...
Some aspects of South Africa’s foreign policy on the civil wars in Côte D’Ivoire, Libya, and Mali
(2013)
During the 1960s, intervention in Africa by both the UNO and former colonial powers such as France was imposed on Africans. After half a century, Pan-Africanists have started to challenge, sometimes successfully, sometimes ...
Pan-African initiatives in global governance
(2013)
As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of ...
Inflows of capital, exchange rates and balance of payments: the post-liberalisation experience of India
(Indian Institute of Economics, 2013)
A review of the analytical literature shows that macroeconomic consequences of financial liberalization are the results of the combined effect of monetary, fiscal as well as trade and exchange rate policies followed by the ...
Astronaissance: Communicating astronomy & space to the African imagination
(2013)
Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics.
Story-telling, painting, engraving, ...
Livestock and the rangeland commons in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution
to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes: reflections on the discourses of land reform in South Africa after 1994
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have
been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions
and frameworks informing policy and critique. ...
An empirical analysis of energy consumption and economic growth in India: are they causally related?
(Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2013)
In this paper an attempt is made to present the energy scenario of India in terms of energy consumption, energy security and energy efficiency. Growth trends and the changes in growth trends of these variables have been ...
Enforced informalisation: the case of liquor retailers in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
After a decade of unsuccessful efforts to migrate informal businesses to South Africa’s formal economy there remains little understanding of the dynamics in this sector, especially as regards micro-enterprises. International ...