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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. ... -
Potential gains from sector timing in Taiwan
(IFRD, 2013)The dominance of the electronic sector in the Taiwanese stock market and the relatively low historical correlation between the Taiwanese electronic and financial sector indexes call for the exploration of sector diversity ... -
The potential of agriculture and land reform to generate jobs
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ... -
Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ... -
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)The Universal Declaration of Human Rights introduces the recognition of the inherent dignity of all people as a foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Dignity plays a prominent role in South Africa’s ... -
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)Dignity is a foundational value in South Africa’s Constitution and is also experienced as a psycho-social phenomenon. Dimensions of dignity were explored with almost two hundred low income female caregivers and the impact ... -
Poverty measurement blues: Some reflections on the space for understanding ‘chronic’ and ‘structural’ poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that ... -
Power in action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice by Steven Friedman
(2019)Steven Friedman has long been one of South Africa’s premier public intellectuals, making invaluable and thoughtful contributions on the political issues of the day. In Power in Action, he zooms out from everyday issues ... -
Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urbanhunger and its contextual correlates in an African city
(Elsevier, 2022)Although progress has been made in addressing hunger and poor diets in African cities, many urban res-idents still suffer from food insecurity, and there is large heterogeneity within cities. We examine spatialvariations ... -
A preliminary comparative perspective on the role of multinational enterprises in influencing labour relations of their host nation
(Services for Science and Education, 2021)This paper examines the operations of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in so far as they are able to influence the public and labour relations policy and law of their host nation with a special attentio ... -
Pressures on land in sub-Saharan Africa: Social differentiation and societal response
(Overseas Development Institute, 2012)This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for land tenure rights in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights trends in legal and policy approaches; describes and analyses new ... -
Principles and practice for successful farmland redistribution in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)The current debate on land reform in South Africa is unnecessarily polarised between those who believe that the market has failed to deliver, and those who believe that the bureaucracy has failed to deliver. Instead, we ... -
Proceedings of the second innovation lab: Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: a social dialogue and learning project
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ... -
Progressing community-based natural resource management in Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)Zimbabwe is ushering in a new era of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). It is moving away from place-based wildlife management initiatives to more internationally linked forestry carbon projects which ... -
Property and accessing rights in public dams
(2017)South Africa has great potential for development and enhancement of inland fisheries through use of storage dams and lakes This potential remains largely under/unutilised Inland fisheries could promote rural livelihoods ... -
Protecting the standardised patient in TB scenarios: The South African study
(2019)SPs used in TB scenarios experience repeated exposure to TB in high risk settings. Exposure for each TB standardised patient.an average of 2.5 hours per facility - at least 19 times - over a five-week period.Public ... -
Psychological capital: The antidote for the consequences of organisational citizenship behaviour in industry 4.0 workplace
(Springer, Cham, 2021)Managing the associated consequences of the increasing demand for organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is one of the common phenomena of concerns among professionals and scholars in the fields of Industrial/Organisational ... -
A qualitative study on resource barriers facing scaled container-based sanitation service chains
(International Water Association publishers, 2022)Container-based sanitation (CBS) is an increasingly recognised form of off-grid sanitation provision appropriate for impoverished urban environments. To ensure a safely managed and sustainable service, a managing organisation ... -
R&D the biggest business casualty of Covid-19?
(2021-06)While the overall economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is still unfolding, there are strong indications that it is causing the largest economic downturn since the 2008 financial crisis. In 2020, the South African ... -
Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: The case of the University of Cape Town
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2009-12)The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in ...