Doctoral Degrees (Economics and Finance)
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Informal economic activities in Ghana: a case study of slums in Kumasi and Accra.
(University of Kwazulu-Natal., 2016-12)Slums are urban households, which lack permanently durable housing, adequate living space, access to clean water, suitable sanitation and land tenure security. Globally, slums house a third of the world’s population. These ... -
Building more peaceful gender relationships in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.
(2012)The objective of this study is to understand the attitudes and behaviour of young South Kivu men towards women in order to encourage the development of more peaceful attitudes and behaviour. This study provides insights ... -
Explaining the cross-section of share returns in South Africa using macroeconomic factor models.
(2016)Understanding asset prices is critical for the decision-making of many; from professional and individual investors, who seek to earn the highest possible return from their investments, to governments and corporates evaluating ... -
Success factors for business rescue in South Africa.
(2016)In 2011 a new Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008 (RSA, 2008), was implemented in South Africa. A feature of this Act was the introduction of business rescue legislation. Although this legislation was implemented in May 2011, ... -
Trading in chaos : analysis of active management in a fractal market.
(2017)Many Nobel Laureates and thousands of academic papers have espoused the concept that risk is compensated by return. However, the low volatility anomaly - the phenomenon where low-risk stocks display markedly higher returns ... -
The working capital management practices of JSE-listed companies.
(2014)Working capital management is a subject that was largely ignored in the theoretical and empirical literature until the 1980s, mainly because it was considered a non-value adding balance sheet item. It has gained pre-eminence, ... -
Essays on collusion in South Africa's grain industry : remedies, overcharges and cartel stability.
(2014)The rule against collusion is the least controversial prohibition in competition law and is regarded with approval even by those generally sceptical of government interventions in markets. Nonetheless, some significant and ... -
The provision of efficient transport services in the Iranian maritime and land transport interface.
(2014)This research investigates the efficiency of Iran’s transport system with reference to the seaborne trade and sustainable development of ports, shipping services, logistics centres and transit corridors as the overall ... -
Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa.
(2014)Despite some evidence that the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions depends on the context of their implementation, there is a paucity of evidence on the cost-effectiveness (CE) of these interventions in South Africa. ... -
Monetary policy and manufacturing sector growth in Africa's oil exporting countries.
(2014)Various studies in the past have attributed the slow level of economic development in many African countries to the underdeveloped real sector of these economies, especially the manufacturing sector. The situation appears ... -
The rise of micro and small-scale entrepreneurial activity in a melting down economy : a case of Zimbabwe.
Entrepreneurship is viewed as a pertinent vehicle for economic growth, development, employment creation and income generation (entrepreneurial effects). Small-scale, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) are the dominant ... -
Performance of students in the College of Law and Management Studies, UKZN : an econometric analysis.
(2011)South Africa needs more higher education graduates with the capability to adapt to and function in a knowledge-driven and knowledge-dependent economy and society. High dropout and failure rates, as well as the slow ... -
Restorative justice as a tool for peacebuilding : South African study.
(2015-01-09)In this study a component of long-term peacebuilding practice - restorative justice processing - was examined in South Africa’s unequal, transitional context. Based on multidisciplinary literature, Galtung’s (1996) notion ... -
A determination and analysis of preservation values for protected areas.
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The economic impact of adult mortality and morbidity on smallholder farm households in Malawi.
(2011)This thesis comprises three essays on “The Economic impact of adult mortality and morbidity on smallholder farm households in Malawi.” The first essay estimates the levels of technical efficiency of AIDS-affected and ... -
The role of narrative in healing in Rwanda.
(2010)In 1994, almost a million Tutsi and some Hutu were massacred in Rwanda during the 100 day genocide. Between 1995 and 1998, nearly the same number of Hutu and some Tutsi died, while in flight, primarily in the former ... -
Acting out the myths : the power of narrative discourse in shaping the Zimbabwe Conflict of Matabeleland, 1980-1987.
(2009)This thesis interrogates the Matabeleland disturbances of 1980-1987 by analysing the conflict narratives promulgated by the ZANU-PF and how these narratives directly impacted the socio-political construction of violence ... -
The migrant labour system and South African economic development 1936-1970.
(1976)No abstract available.
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