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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2013-12)Please read abstract in article.
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Many countries experienced a credit and housing boom over the period 2003 - 2007. This was followed by a burst in the US housing bubble, which contributed to the deep global economic and financial crisis which began in ...
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(Routledge, 2016-02)This article uses a dynamic CGE model to explain the persistence in the high levels of unemployment in the South African economy in spite of modest to relatively strong output growth. We make use of a historical simulation ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-02)The standard procedure for quantifying spillover effects of changes in economic fundamentals among separate regions (or countries) is to link the regions through predetermined weights – for example through fixed weighted ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11-08)Background: The South African government is in dire need of additional sources of tax revenues as they have consistently spent more than they have received in recent years. This need is further compounded by the damage ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-09-04)The greatest method to produce resources and to reduce the tax collection shortfall is to grow the economy and broaden the tax base, according to the South African Minister of Finance's 2022 Budget Speech. In 2021 alone, ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2006-02)The question addressed in this chapter is whether a community conservation initiative (coupled with the restoration of degraded land) can be considered a feasible alternative land use option compared to subsistence ...
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(Elsevier, 2006-09)Poverty and environmental degradation seem to be endemic in many of the former homeland territories of South Africa. The political legacy of Apartheid might have ceased, but the economic and environmental consequences ...
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(Inderscience, 2021-08)With consumers increasingly avoiding service brands due to a wide range of transgressions by organisations, it is surprising that research relating to service brand avoidance is lacking, with most studies focusing on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)South Africa, as well as many other African countries, require additional domestic tax revenues for sustained development and face a number of political tax revenue and economic tax revenue challenges in obtaining these ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-01)Tobacco taxes are known to reduce tobacco consumption and to be regressive, such that tobacco control policy may have the perverse effect of further harming the poor. However, if tobacco consumption falls faster amongst ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2006-12)Recent studies have pointed out that trade liberalisation leads to technological spillovers, which, in turn, tend to improve the efficiency of the domestic Research and Development (R&D) sector, and ultimately boost ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-04)Even though energy poverty has been widely discussed in many countries, only a few studies attempt to understand the nexus of race and energy poverty. To fill the gap in the literature, this study analyses the effect of ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-06)Student ratings of teaching (SETs) are vital for academic career trajectories of higher education lecturers. Although student bias against female lecturers is noted in previous studies, mostly in the developed world, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)In recent years, much has been written about leadership development as a tool to ensure organisations an adequate supply of leaders. It is generally accepted that said leadership is a set of skills which can be developed ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2021)COVID-19 lockdowns are happening in almost all societies across the globe, but in South Africa the lockdown is occurring in one of the most unequal societies in the world and in the socio-historic racial context of ...
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(IFE Center for Psychological Studies, 2016)The paper examines female portrayals in South African television commercials, with a focus on roles and race. Advertising portrayals are generally considered reflective of the gender and racial diversity of a nation; and ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-12)Using annual data on real gold returns and measures of rare disaster risks over the period of 1280–2016, we show the existence of nonlinearity and regime changes in the relationship between the two variables of concern, ...
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(Springer, 2022-04)The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of rare disaster risks, captured by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, on the volatility of Treasury securities of the United States (US) involving 1- to ...
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(Elsevier, 2015-04)Given the worldwide concern that individuals are not saving sufficiently for retirement, many governments are taking action to try and rectify this tendency. A key focus area is implementing policies to dissuade individuals ...
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