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This journal comprises several articles related to international relations. The first article is titled: The BRICS in an age of multipolarity: Sustaining strategic partnerships under difficult economic conditions by Philani Mthembu. While much has...
Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)
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Agriculture in Nigeria has not generated significant results from the policy interventions instituted by various government regimes to improve its productivity and impact on the economy. The country continues to expend its limited foreign exchan...
Fatai Ayinde Aremu
Patrick Vandi Kwaghe
Daniel Egiegba Agbiboa
Saadu A. Jijji
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Globally, social protection (SP) is recognised as one of the approaches for tackling poverty and promoting inclusive growth. In Africa, social protection has become a mainstay in poverty reduction strategies with many African countries developing ...
Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR)
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As the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme concludes its 2015 Intersessional meeting in the Angolan Capital, Luanda this week, it is time again to evaluate the social costs of diamond mining to the Marange community. It is also time to ask about...
Farai Maguwu
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This paper’s focus on consumption is driven by the need to monitor, measure and analyse the intensity and distribution trends of tobacco use- considering its health and economic costs. The aim was to generate evidence to inform the design of curre...
Anita Ntale
Ibrahim Kasirye
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This report focuses on a part of the Marikana massacre, an incident on Thursday 16 August 2012 in which 34 striking mineworkers were killed by members of the South African Police Service. It relies on information made available in the public dom...
David Bruce
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While Uganda is considered to be at low risk of debt distress, the stagnant tax effort and large planned capital expenditures might significantly alter this position. This paper employs the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to ex...
Paul Corti Lakuma
Joseph Mawejje
Musa Mayanja Lwanga
Ezra Francis Munyambonera
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Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) have been identified as a key component to advancing inclusive growth and development in South Africa. This paper serves to present a snapshot of the current profile of SMMEs in South Africa as well as...
Haroon Bhorat
Zaakhir Asmal
Kezia Lilenstein
Kirsten Van der Zee
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This paper argues for the need to develop psychosocial approaches that focus on combining preventative and healing work through community-led interventions with risk groups, their families, their neighbours and wider communities, and finally the a...
Nomfundo Mogapi
Josephine Acuna Lascano
Ernesto A. Anasarias
Seidu Swaray
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South Africa has extremely high rates of sexual violence, and rape has been used in the country as a way to “punish” women who do not conform to normative ideals of femininity in different ways over time. This report offers a critique of the ter...
Kylie Thomas
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This study identified typical implications of price fluctuations on many of the parameters highlighted above which include: government revenue and the responses from the sector both from the state and mining companies. The report provides sources...
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
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This issue brief is a quick reference guide regarding urban forced migrant access to their legally guaranteed health and psychosocial rights in Johannesburg. We focus on the urban as, in the South African context, forced migrants are mostly foun...
Jo Vearey
Lorena Nunez
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Despite being a clear priority for the African Union (AU), conflict prevention faces many challenges in terms of both its institutionalization and political effectiveness. This report analyses the coherence of the AU’s conflict prevention instrum...
Yann Bedzigui
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The purpose of this report is to provide analysis and recommendations to assist the African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Member States and Development Partners in decision-making and in the implementation of peace and security...
Mesfin Gebremichael
Alagaw Ababu Kifle
Alem Kidane
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The area that is today’s South Sudan was once a marginalized region in the Republic of Sudan administered by tribal chiefs during the British colonial period (1899-1955). In the 1950s, marginalization gave rise to the Anyanya I rebellion, spearhea...
Mesfin Gebremichael
Alagaw Ababu Kifle
Alem Kidane
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This issue explores Africa’s new free trade area and violence in Cameroon. The 31st African Union (AU) summit in Nouakchott for the first time saw a vigorous interrogation of the organisation’s proposed budget. Issues of corruption and mismanage...
Ndubuisi Christian Ani
Liesl Louw-Vaudran
Carien du Plessis
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This paper examined factors that influence access to credit by SMEs in Botswana. The results show that access to credit is influenced by gender, citizenship and experience of the manager, as well as firm-size, sector of business, sales and land o...
Goitseone Khanie
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From the discussion in this paper, a number of issues have been brought to the limelight regarding good governance in the extractive sector in general and the mineral exploitation sector in particular. Firsly, that Africa in general and Cameroon i...
Christopher Tamasang
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The study examines the interrelationships between financial development, economic growth, capital accumulation and productivity growth in Botswana over the period 1980-2014. Using the Auto regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound test technique, we...
Kedibonye Sekakela
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This study examines the factors affecting service sector growth and development in Botswana. Using annual time series data from 1980 to 2015, the study employs the auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) estimation technique to identify the factors...
Mpho Raboloko
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This study estimates the determinants of tourism demand in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region using Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimation procedure and panel data for the period 1997-2015. The results obtained suggest that th...
Johane Moilwa Motsatsi
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