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The relationship between inflation and stock prices in Zambia
(Asian Online Journals, 2013)
— This study examines a relationship between inflation and stock prices for Zambia, over the period
1999–2011, using monthly all share stock prices and inflation rates. The study employed Augmented-Dickey-Fuller
and ...
The relationship between planning strategies and entrepreneurial success for start-up entrepreneurs in the Western Cape
(Sage Publications, 2013)
The total entrepreneurial activity rate in South Africa was 9.1%
in 2011, compared with 8.9% in 2010, which is below the average for
similar economies. This study examines the moderating impact of environmental
difficulty ...
The 2013 Election in Zimbabwe: The end of an era
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
The July 31st 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe ushered in a renewed period of political
domination by ZANU(PF) and its President, Robert Mugabe. This election followed five years
of a SADC- facilitated Global Political Agreement ...
Can personal initiative training improve small business success? A longitudinal South African evaluation study
(Sage Publications, 2013)
High levels of personal initiative will be required to unlock the
potential offered by the many untapped resources in Africa in terms of
business opportunities. Significant resources are ploughed into the development
of ...
A review of performance evaluation measures for actively-managed portfolios
(IFRD, 2013)
In the recognition that investment management is an on-going process, the performance of actively-managed portfolios need to be monitored and evaluated to ensure that funds under management are efficiently invested in order ...
Potential gains from predicting the timing of stock market persistence and mean reversion
(Business Perspectives, 2013)
This paper undertakes to investigate the effectiveness of market timing between prior winners and losers in the global
equity markets using Monte Carlo simulation over the period from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2009. ...
Education and SMME Business Growth: A Gender Perspective from South Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2013)
Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women in many countries. Policymakers and other stakeholders typically fail to differentiate between the needs of different SMME sectors when ...
The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...
Can deliberate efforts to realise aspirations increase capabilities? A South African case study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This paper takes up Appadurai's suggestion that aspirations could be used as a key to unlock development for people who are economically marginalised, and that their capabilities could be increased by this approach. The ...
Evaluating social housing intervention strategies in a South African municipality
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2013)
According to the Department of Human Settlement Annual Report (2010:5) accelerating the delivery of housing opportunities by 2014 by providing proper basic services and land tenure to households currently living in informal ...