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Persistence of the inverse care law in maternal health service utilization: An examination of antenatal care and hospital delivery in Ghana
(PAGEpress, 2019)
The gap in maternal health outcomes, access and utilization between the haves and have-nots continues to be a challenge globally despite improvements over the past decade. Though Ghana has experienced steady gains in ...
Resource rents, savings behavior, and scenarios of economic development
(Elsevier, 2023)
The paper revisits the nexus between natural resources and economic growth from the lens of development economics. It augments the traditional dual-sector economy model by the assumption that in addition to capitalists, ...
Do share allocations to the indigenous investor drive the demand for IPOS?
(MDPI, 2023)
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of allocating shares to the indigenous
(Bumiputera) investors on the oversubscription ratio of IPO. This factor is unique to Malaysian
IPOs and would enable us to ...
Making asylum seekers more vulnerable in South Africa: The negative effects of hostile asylum policies on livelihoods
(Wiley, 2020)
In post-apartheid South Africa, migration policies and legislation have left critical issues such
as social cohesion and integration unsolved. Furthermore, the inability to reconcile the national
interest of maintaining ...
International migration and social protection in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)
For a developing country, South Africa has the most comprehensive social
protection system in terms of social grant coverage. Moreover, the country is also
often hailed for its transformative constitution which enshrines ...
Social Policy in South Africa: The challenges of poverty, inequality and exclusion
(2018)
South Africa is currently emerging from a political and socio-economic crisis. A political faction largely based on patrimonialism threatened to destroy the economy and thus social service delivery. With the recent election ...
The threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoek
(MDPI, 2023)
Due to the heterogeneity among households across locations, predicting the impacts of stay-at-home mitigation and lockdown strategies for COVID-19 control is crucial. In this study, we quantitatively assessed the effects ...
Connecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: Reflections on ‘unlikely’ transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
Participatory action research (PAR) is a form of community-drivenqualitative research which aims to collaboratively take action toimprove participants’lives. This is generally achieved throughcognitive, reflexive learning ...
Deep-sea fisheries as resilient bioeconomic systems for food and nutrition security and sustainable development
(Elsevier, 2023)
population, contributing to a substantial shift toward fishing in the mesopelagic zone. These areas contain a
potentially huge amount of fish biomass. Considering that the global population will demand an increase of ...
Making life liveable in an informal market Infrastructures of friendship amongst migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa
(Berghahn Journals, 2023)
African migrants working in street trading business in Durban, South Africa oft en face xenophobia and must navigate policies regulating the informal economy. However, they sustain livelihoods in urban markets through ...