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School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA): Recent submissions
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)Governments around the world implement tourism taxes as a means of generating revenue to promote their respective destinations. South Africa introduced a voluntary tourism tax to raise additional funds for destination ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-08)BACKGROUND : Coalition governments involve multiple political parties uniting to govern because of the absence of a majority party in the council following electoral outcomes. In South Africa, coalitions have become much ...
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(Sage, 2024)There is an increasing call to include Artificial Intelligence (AI) competencies in academic disciplines such as Public Administration, which are not obviously related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ...
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(Wiley, 2023-11)This article unearths the salient factors that trap the aspiring middle class in their progression towards a stable middle class in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. The study utilises a quantitative case study ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2023-12)An empirical investigation on the acceptance of Chinese mining activities in rural Zimbabwe was done for this article. Its two main goals were to: (1) assess public opinion of Chinese mining operations; and (2) present ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-04-14)ORIENTATION: Globally, the repercussions of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic infiltrated many areas within societies. Like all other institutions, higher education institutions (HEIs) had to migrate to ...
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(MDPI, 2023-11-03)Water is a fundamental human right, and its provision is essential for the maintenance of the general quality of life. The South African government has a constitutional obligation to provide clean potable water to all ...
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(Routledge, 2024)IMPACT : The authors explain why municipal capacity should be significantly improved for the successful implementation of audit recommendations by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA). Municipalities need robust ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-11)The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe economic shock to which governments responded by announcing largescale recovery packages with magnitudes unseen before. While some of these policies have been expected to have positive ...
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(Emerald, 2024-06)PURPOSE : Realities of food insecurity are more pronounced with a specific focus on women in developing countries. The need to understand the varied food insecurity experiences among female-headed agricultural households ...
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(CSIRO Publishing, 2024-04)CONTEXT : Food security is one of the major concerns in the Philippines. Although livestock and poultry production accounts for a significant proportion of the country’s agricultural output, smallholder households are ...
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(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10)This article presents lessons on transcendence, from research on the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic to policy, using experiences from Zimbabwe. The case study parallels literature on knowledge translation ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-04)This paper provides a macro-micro modeling analysis of the ex-ante effects of COVID-19 mitigation and recovery policies on macroeconomic and distributional effects, particularly on female and male workers, income distribution, ...
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(SpringerOpen, 2023-09)This paper presents the results of ridge regression analysis of the relationship between government spending in emancipation programmes and multidimensional poverty, focusing on South Africa. Through the Principal Component ...
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(Wiley, 2024-01)MOTIVATION : With rising unemployment in South Africa, new forms of digital work transcend legal conceptions and discourses on work. Uber's digital labour platform (DLP) has the potential to reduce unemployment and improve ...
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(Stellenbosch University, 2023-11)This research aimed to examine the quandaries of contract cheating faced by higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa. Based on a desktop study utilizing unobtrusive research methods such as documentary analysis ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-12)BACKGROUND : Many developing countries are experiencing many financial management and control challenges such as corruption, fraud and misappropriation of public funds. In South Africa, municipalities are among the most ...
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(University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2022-07)Governments across the globe establish State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) or businesses with a view of participating in commercial activities and contribute to the state purse. If successfully established and operated, such ...
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Adoption of Fourth Industrial Revolution : challenges in South African higher education institutions (OpenED Network, 2023-03)The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) adoption in South Africa in higher education institutions (HEIs) has yet to be consistent. Despite the extensive literature on the possible contributions of technology to learners’ ...
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(Emerald, 2023-12)PURPOSE : This study aims to investigates the contribution of the informal sector towards secure livelihoods. Using a case study design, the study focusses on Mandela park, situated in Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town, in ...
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