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School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA): Recent submissions
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(University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2022-12)In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments opted to use agile methodologies to tackle various challenges. Policymakers did not follow the normal protocol of policymaking and governance; instead, they adopted a ...
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(Virtus Interpress, 2022)The government of South Africa uses citizens’ tax money to procure products to meet citizens’ needs (Fourie, 2009) in areas such as education, health, road safety, and transportation. Having public service officials who ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Although the Nigerian government has implemented various social protection responses and constitutional safeguards, poverty still affects over 50% of the population, with the northern region being the most affected due to ...
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(Wiley, 2022-07)Using a qualitative study of Indigenous public servants in Canada and Australia, this article helps open the “black box” of bureaucratic representation. Findings dispel any idea that active representation is unproblematic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-03)The purpose of the study was to analyse the delivery of low-cost housing by the Free State Department of Human Settlements using the Hillside View Integrated Development as a case study. The study identified factors which ...
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(Springer, 2022-06)Little is known about the general equilibrium impact COVID-19 induces on different gender groups. This paper addresses the problem of relatively few general equilibrium studies focusing on gender impacts of COVID-19. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The Performance Management and Development System was introduced by the South African government as a tool for monitoring and managing public sector performance, including healthcare. In order to implement it correctly, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The aim of the research was to investigate the contribution of the informal sector to sustainable livelihoods using the case study of Khayelitsha township, in Cape Town. The study further examined factors affecting informal ...
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(Virtus Interpress, 2022)Promoting social cohesion is particularly critical in South Africa given the context of widening inequality, growing unemployment, and persistent racial inequalities. Without measurement, potential key contributing factors ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)A high recidivism rate has called for the evaluation of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes offered in correctional centres. The study analyses the effectiveness of offender rehabilitation and reintegration programmes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)South Africa has a rapidly increasing unemployment rate which has been identified as a national crisis that urgently needs to be addressed. Unemployment is seen as a structural constraint that leads to significant issues ...
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(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2020-09)This paper analyses how communities living near parks and wildlife sanctuaries have interacted with the compounded problems of climate change and COVID-19 in Africa. The paper further examines how African governments ...
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(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2022-09)The COVID-19 pandemic has left many governments across the world searching for effective responses to the challenges their citizens face. The paper adopted a qualitative research approach, drawing from an extensive review ...
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(Rynnye Lyan Resources, 2022-12)Food security has always been a contemporary issue in urban South Africa, which is gripped by high inequality. This has recently been exacerbated by risks and hazards pertaining to climate change and the more recent ...
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(Urbana: Urban Affairs and Public Policy, United States, 2022)This article analyses the coordination processes, challenges, and outcomes of the South African Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) as the social safety net related to poverty and unemployment, drawing on the Cape ...
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(Africa Journals, 2022-08)The COVID-19 pandemic brought the tourism sector to a complete standstill during the hard lockdown because of the global travel ban. This study aims to analyse the effects of COVID-19 on levy administration and ...
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(Wiley, 2023-03)Despite the recurrent focus on pay as an incentive and the myriad reforms of public sector compensation, researchers have generated surprisingly little evidence of the link between pay level and organizational performance. ...
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(Center for Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, 2022-12)Scholars contend that public administration, as a discipline, is still in its infancy and, more often than not, fumbles for its own identity. It is generally regarded as an amalgamation of various disciplines. It is ...
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(Center for Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, 2022-12)Under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Government has long mooted the notion of becoming a developmental state in response to rising unemployment, inequality and poverty. This idea ...
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(Sage, 2021)Contracting out has long been used in all levels of government in the United States, with federal contract spending increasing 8% to 9% annually since 2015. The literature on contracting out has examined the impact of this ...
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