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Factors Affecting Digital Transformation in the Retail Supply Chain
(2021-06)The digital transformation, introduced by the fourth industrial revolution, has significantly transformed the value proposition of supply chain organisations. However, there is limited extant ... -
Factors explaining the academic success of second-year economics students: an exploratory analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)Factors influencing the academic success of first-year economics students have been intensely researched. Lecture and tutorial attendance, age, gender, as well as matriculation results have been identified as significant ... -
Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys
(Taylor & Francis group, 2016)The South African existing literature on poverty mainly adopted the money-metric approach to examine poverty levels and trends since the advent of democracy. In general, poverty increased until the end of the 1990s, ... -
Financial development and health care expenditure in Sub Saharan Africa Countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The study aimed to examine the relationship between financial development and health care expenditure in 46 Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The paper argues that health care expenditure is a key transmission mechanism ... -
Forecasting volatility in sub-Saharan Africa’s commodity markets
(Business Perspectives, 2007)Using spot prices from eighteen commodities traded by most Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper evaluates the out-of-sample volatility forecasting efficiency of seven models. The models evaluated included random walk, ... -
The fuel of unparalleled recovery: Monetary policy in South Africa between 1925 and 1936
(Routledge, 2021)The newly established South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was tasked to protect the currency by navigating the interwar gold standard, and, from March 1933, maintaining parity with the Pound Sterling. We find that South ... -
The Geopolitical Environment in Namibia: Business Challenges and Opportunities
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2013)Geopolitics and business development is a buzz word. There is a serious link between population growth and the environment. This is basically found somewhere between the view that population growth is solely responsible ... -
High-functioning depression among women in South Africa: An exploratory study
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2018)The study estimated the prevalence and trends of chronic depressive symptoms among women in South Africa from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data collection waves (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014/2015). NIDS utilised the ... -
Home delivery of medication as part of reducing congestion in primary healthcare in Tshwane District Health Services
(Medical Publishing Group, 2020)Congestion at health facilities poses the risk of extensive spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) to patients at high risk for severe illness and death due to this infection. During the ... -
How invariant is South African child poverty to the choice of equivalence scale or poverty measure?
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the Adult Equivalence Scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. ... -
The impact of bank-specific determinants on commercial banks’ liquidity in Namibia
(Academic Research Publishing Group, 2016)This paper examined the bank-specific determinants for commercial bank’s liquidity in Namibia. The study was based on quarterly data covering the period 2001:Q1 to 2014:Q2, utilizing the technique of unit root and ordinary ... -
The impact of import in inflation in Namibia
(ID publications, 2017)This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable, while gross domestic product, money supply ... -
The impact of import of inflammation in Namibia
(ID publication, 2017)This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable, while gross domestic product, money supply ... -
The Impact Of import on Inflation in Namibia
(ID publications, 2017)This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable, while gross domestic product, money supply ... -
The impact of import on inflation in Namibia
(Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, 2017)This study examined the impact of imports on inflation in Namibia using quarterly data from the period 1991Q1 to 2013Q4. The model estimated used imports as a dependent variable, while gross domestic product, money supply ... -
The impact of inter-provincial migration on the labor market outcomes in two developed provinces in South Africa
(2020)This study used the South African Census 2011 data to examine the impact of interprovincial migration on the labor market outcomes in the Western Cape and Gauteng, the two most developed and popular inter-provincial ... -
The impact of microfinance on household livelihoods: Evidence from rural Eritrea
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017)This study examined the impact of microfinance on the livelihoods of households in rural Eritrea. It specifically sought to find out whether the Saving and Microcredit Programme (SMCP), introduced by the Eritrean Government ... -
The Impact of Migration Announcement on share Prices of the Firms that Migrate from Altx to the JSE Main Board, South Africa
(Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2023)This paper uses an event study methodology to empirically examine the impact of migration announcements on the share prices of the firms that migrate from the Alternative Exchange (AltX) to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange ... -
Impact of WTO policies on developing countries: issues and perspectives
(Ottawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational DevelopmentOttawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational Development, 2012)About two thirds of the WTO’s around 150 members are developing countries. They play an increasingly important and active role in the WTO because of their numbers, because they are becoming more important in the global ... -
Improving the targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value added tax (VAT) in South Africa - An exploratory analysis
(Stellenbosch University, 2012)VAT without any exemptions or zero-rating is regressive. Since the inception of VAT in South Africa, there has been an ongoing debate around the issue of zero-rating to alleviate the burden on poor households. This paper ...