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The impact of Namibia’s currency peg on its domestic inflation
(2009)
This study analyses the impact of Namibia’s currency peg on its domestic inflation. This is because theoretical argument suggests that currency peg (fixed exchange rate) provides nominal anchor for domestic price level, ...
The impact of tax policy on foreign investment flows to capital-scarce economies
(2009)
Developing countries all over the world are competing for greater shares of foreign
investment flows in a world where capital has become much more mobile. Also
changes to tax policies have been implemented to make the ...
The production of oilseeds in Ethiopia: value chain analysis and the benefit that accrue to the primary producers
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Oilseed is the third most important export item in Ethiopian foreign trade. It has registered a high export growth rate over recent years both in terms of volume and value. Besides its growing share in export, it is widely ...
An investigation into how elderly persons perceive elder abuse.
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
The international concern about human rights, gender equality, domestic violence and the increase in the aging populations has brought elder abuse into the public focus. Elder abuse is a complex, multi-faceted health, ...
The characteristics of an effective nonprofit organisation: A critical analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This thesis presents a model of the characteristics of an effective nonprofit organisation and a practical tool to evaluate the extent to which nonprofit organisations comply with these characteristics. As part of identifying ...
Sustainability of the Zambian microfinance industry: A case study of credit management services
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This thesis is both a qualitative and quantitative study, investigating the sustainability of
Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) within the broader context of the Zambian
micro finance industry. Micro finance is ...
Is a universal income grant an appropriate social policy to alleviate poverty in Rwanda?
(2009)
Rwanda is characterised as a low-income country amongst the poorest on the African continent.Poverty in Rwanda has been persistent for a long period of time and it was made worse by the genocide that took place in 1994 and ...
The state and political struggle: strategies of repression and resistance in the greater Cape Town area from 1985 to 1989
(University of Western Cape, 2000)
In the period 1985 to 1989 both the state and the liberation movements sought to implement strategies of repression and resistance inside South Africa. These unfolded in the different regions of the country in unique ways. ...
Tax assignment to local governments -The Case for Fiscal Decentralization in Peru
(University of Western Cape, 2004)
A country's decentralization process can be one of the pillars of democratic participation, local and regional accountability, sub-national empowerment, and under certain conditions, economic growth. Fiscal decentralization, ...
An investigation into farming enterprises under the land redistribution program in the Southern Cape
(University of Western Cape, 2004)
In 1994, the first democratically elected South African government promised to redistribute 30 % of white-owned farmland to the formerly disadvantaged people in order to rectify the racially-based unequal distribution of ...