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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-09)The Department of Telematic Learning and Education Innovation (TLEI) is a service department at the University of Pretoria, which assists and supports academic staff in education innovation projects. One of the many ...
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(Routledge, 2019)In developing countries, where few incentives exist for private sector investment in research, public investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) is critical for technological change that stimulates agricultural ...
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(Routledge, 2011-03)Europe has been the privileged economic and political partner of Africa, but more recently China has increased its foothold in Africa through important financial investments and trade agreements. Against this backdrop, ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-09)This article attempts to describe the formation of public choice and the role that government should play in accommodating this in its regulatory environment. The need to foster institutions arises from certain intrinsic ...
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(Emerald, 2023-03)PURPOSE – This study aims to explore public coping strategies with government-imposed lockdown restrictions (i.e. forced compliance) due to a health crisis (i.e. COVID-19). This directly impacts the public’s power, as ...
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Public disclosure for carbon abatement : African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment (Taylor and Francis Group, 2017)A linear public good experiment adopted from Holt and Laury [1997. Classroom games: Voluntary provision of a public good. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(4), 209–215.] has been employed to investigate strategic ...
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(Southern African Institute of Government Auditors, 2000)The Public Finance Management Act shows an awesome display of commitment to accountability and the application of sound management principles. It takes the responsibilities of public financial managers to new horizons and ...
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(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2002-03)The urgent need to develop South Africa's human resources in the public service has been conceptualized in many policy documents. The underlying objective of efforts to strengthen the human resources in the public sector, ...
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(Southern African Institute of Government Auditors, 2005)Effective, efficient, transparent, accountable and predictable Public Financial Management (PFM) in developing countries is a prerequisite for long term and sustainable reduction of poverty and effective use of scarce ...
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(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2018-06)Childhood hearing impairment is a significant cause of disability in developing countries, where infectious diseases are the leading cause of avoidable pediatric hearing loss. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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(MDPI, 2022-08-26)Rabies is a neglected disease endemic in Asia and Africa but is still a significant public and veterinary health threat. Whilst a key delicacy for the local diet, bats are a natural reservoir host for many viral zoonotic ...
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(Veterinary World, 2017-10-01)Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 was first officially reported in Africa in 2006; thereafter this virus has spread rapidly from Nigeria to 11 other African countries. This study was aimed at utilizing ...
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(MDPI, 2022-04-01)Local, national, and international health agencies have advocated multi-pronged public health strategies to limit infections and prevent deaths. The availability of safe and effective vaccines is critical in the control ...
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(Wiley, 2023-01)Does coethnicity with the President affect public infrastructure provision in South Africa? Using municipal-level data for 52 district municipalities from 1996 to 2016, we find that municipalities coethnic with the President ...
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(Southern African Institute of Government Auditors, 1998)The auditing profession has been criticised that auditing standards favour the self-interests of a limited number of members or certain constituencies of society and not society at large. As auditing is a means of social ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Studies of public leadership increasingly recognize the importance of collaboration as a mechanism for delivering public policy. Despite theoretical and empirical developments in this direction, insufficient attention has ...
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(Unisa Press, 2007)In his controversial work, The Protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism, the German sociologist Max Weber (1852–1937) points to a positive relationship between Protestantism (especially Calvinism) and the rise of ...
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(Harvard University Press, 2020-06)As governments around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with a range of policies aimed at mitigating the economic fallout, we argue that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should prioritize public money ...
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(School of Law, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2011)This paper systematically describes the public participation standards currently applied by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to the private sector and seeks to identify emerging trends and areas for further development ...
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(Wiley, 2016-03)In South Africa, rates of adoption remain low while the number of fostered children continually rises. Little is known about the public perceptions, beliefs and experiences that inform decisions to either foster or adopt ...
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