Browsing by Subject "Economics"
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A conceptual framework for sustainable waste management in small municipalities: The cases of Langebaan, South Africa and Swakopmund, Namibia
(Springer, 2023)Municipal waste management is a major challenge for local governments in South Africa and Namibia, as in other developing countries. The circular economy concept in waste management is an alternative sustainable development ... -
Investigating the significance of the 2008 Matric curriculum on first-year Economics performance
(UNISA Press, 2011)The academic success of first-year Economics students has been the focus of many South African studies in Economic Education. Many used the last school examination (Matric) results as a proxy for students’ academic ... -
Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This is the first South African study that analysed all three availablewaves of Statistics South Africa’s Volunteer Activities Survey data,which was linked to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey in the third quarter of the ... -
Investigation of the youth informal entrepreneurship landscape in South Africa
(Unisa Press, 2022)The South African economy is characterised by high and continuously rising youth unemployment levels and rates. While countervailing interventions have been attempted in the formal sector, support for youth employment and ... -
Key challenges to achieving health for all in an inequitable society: The case of South Africa
(American Public Health Association, 2006)The health inequalities in South Africa are rapidly worsening. Since 1994, the new democratic government has initiated a number of large-scale policies and programs with explicit pro-equity objectives that have improved ... -
Reflections of employed graduates on the suitability of their skills and knowledge for workplace-readiness
(Stellenbosch University, 2019)There is broad consensus amongst scholars and policy makers that the development of workplace-ready graduates requires a review of the teaching and learning strategies currently informing classroom learning. It has been ... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under ... -
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced bycritical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We arguethat despite the historical and structural limitations, the criticaljuncture of convergence of ... -
Unmasking community trust issues in rural field work
(ACM, 2013)The principal objective of this paper is to describe the au thor's fieldwork and research in a remote rural area of South Africa, where a Village Telco is deployed to provide Voice over Internet Protocol on a wireless mesh ... -
The vampire squid: Value, crisis and the power of finance
(Wiley, 2019)Over the last five decades the power and global reach of financial institutions and finance capital to organize economic, social and political life has grown seemingly unchecked. This is manifested in the ability of ...