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Mobile money has gained increasing importance and prominence in many sub-Saharan African countries and as a result, it is seen as a possible key to fast-tracking financial inclusion in developing countries including Eswatini. Although financial incl…
Tanele Magongo
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The SDG are clear on ending hunger and poverty in all forms, achieving food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture, ensuring healthy lives and well-being for all, providing inclusive and equitable high-quality education and…
Johnson Lubega Kagugube
Margaret Banga, Dr
John Nsubuga
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A stronger, more dynamic small business sector is essential for achieving inclusive growth in South Africa. Unfortunately, in spite of a number of promising-sounding interventions, and the creation of the Department of Small Business Development in …
Ross Brown
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Africa has a youthful population and Botswana is no exception. As a result, Botswana suffers from high youth unemployment problems. Hence, this paper seeks to empirically investigate how the socioeconomic characteristics of the youth of Gabane villa…
Happy Siphambe
Malebogo Bakwena
Lexi Setlhare
Mavis Kolobe
Itumeleng Oageng
Keamogetse Setlhare
Tshegofatso Motswagae
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The 10-year review of the African Mining Vision (AMV) is an opportunity to showcase the need for futures literacy, foresight and anticipatory governance. The COVID-19 pandemic accentuates the lack of anticipatory capabilities in African mining to …
Deon Cloete
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In a bid to achieve the number one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of no poverty, the government of Burundi has developed a national social protection strategy. As part of the strategy, the government is currently implementing cash transfer progr…
Jean Claude Nsabimana
Jeanine Nkunzimana
Lydia Bukuru
Charles Kabwigiri
Belyse Mupfasoni
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Like many other countries, Ghana has been grappling with its share of fake news about COVID-19. On the one hand, rumors that the “foreign disease” targets only whites and the affluent heighten nonchalant attitudes toward fighting the disease. On the…
Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye Sanny
Edem Selormey
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Domestic violence which may also be referred to as domestic abuse or family violence is a very disastrous habit in families. Globally, domestic violence is a very big challenge among married partners more so in developing countries including Uganda.…
Luttamaguzi JohnBosco
Nannozi Susanie Ggoobi
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Child health is considered a key indicator of economic development and quality of life in developing countries. In this context, this study attempts to empirically analyse the role of maternal education and prenatal care on child heath at birth in C…
Saleu Feumeni Josiane
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Like much of the rest of the world, Zimbabwe has confronted the COVID-19 pandemic with stay-at-home orders and advice to practice social distancing and frequent handwashing, hoping to prevent a wave of infections that would overwhelm the national he…
Simangele Moyo-Nyede
Jonathan Kugarakuripi
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Not only did the COVID-19 disease arrive on Africa’s shores (and at its airports) later than in Asia, Europe, and North America, but for months the numbers of infections and deaths also appeared to remain relatively low. As of early August, the cont…
Robert Mattes
Carolyn Logan
E. Gyimah-Boadi
George Ellison
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COVID-19 poses great risks to the African and global community but in what could otherwise be apocalyptic despair, there are also great opportunities to change the style and practice of international relations. Most crucially, there is now the norma…
Garth Le Pere
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The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold hardship across the world and Africa is not being spared. COVID-19 also tests the basic assumptions upon which the liberal international order is built, including the return to the primacy of national interest…
Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk
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COVID-19, which first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and reached pandemic proportions by early 2020 has added an additional layer of complexity to an increasingly uncertain global landscape. The pandemic comes at a time when shifts in th…
Ellen Davies
Saliem Fakir
Melisha Nagiah
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Eswatini has been experiencing the brain drain phenomenon since the early 90s. Previous studies on the phenomenon attribute the brain drain to high unemployment and the labour market’s inability to absorb emaSwati. With that said, there are still no…
Zmokuhle Manana
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Stokvels are increasingly being recognised as a solution to contribute to income generation and wealth creation, especially amongst low-income earners who are excluded from the formal financial markets. This study investigates the contribution of st…
Ntando Nkambule
Mangaliso Mohammed
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These are extraordinary times and there is little time to mince words: South African mining is in decline. We have limited exploration for new mining opportunities. We have almost no investment in new mines. We have decreasing investment to expand a…
Norman Mbazima
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This paper reviews the existing literature to determine the adequacy of evidence and extent of the environmental impacts in the oil producing areas in South Sudan. The following is revealed: Evidence from previous studies shows that there is a serio…
Nhial Tiitmamer
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In South Africa, “social grants” providing income support to poor households have a long history. More than 17 million citizens, almost one-third of the population, receive a cash transfer from the state each month. The largest social grant programs…
Mikhail Moosa
Jaynisha Patel
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Unemployment in Botswana is relatively high (23%) and even higher for youth (26%) using the narrow definition of unemployment. Despite the concerted efforts of the government of Botswana, uptake of youth employment programmes remains relatively very…
Happy Siphambe
Malebogo Bakwena
Lexi Setlhare
Mavis Kolobe
Itumeleng Oageng
Keamogetse Setlhare
Tshegofatso Motswagae
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