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Showing 1 to 20 of 17388 for “"Africa"”.
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Undernourishment in Africa
… worst performers are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study therefore seeks to explore the variables affecting undernourishment rates, in an attempt to explain this variance. Six case studies hence explored three best performers (Angola, Chad and Ghana) and three worst performers …
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Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa: Critical Reflections on West Africa
… dynamic changes in regional integration in West Africa. These changes were different from those anticipated in the framework of the Treaty of Lagos that established the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in May 1975. ECOWAS revised its treaty in 1993 and expanded its governance …
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Africa returning East : can the China development model travel to Africa?
Africa is returning to the strategic agenda of both old and new powers. A number of new opportunities and alarming missteps will be possible in the coming decades. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the neo-liberal agenda has been unchallenged allowing little flexibility for developing countries to …
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An experimental study of adolescents' identification with South Africa and Africa
South African social psychological research on national identity has been limited. The current research aimed to address some of the gaps in the local literature. Two studies were conducted among Grade 11 learners at Cape Town high schools. Study 1 (N=565) included Black African-language speakers, …
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Energy in east and southern Africa : with special reference to South Africa
… the energy sector of the East and Southern Africa Region (as defined by the World Energy Council) is investigated. Special attention is given to South Africa and the potential future role she could play in the region. The region is characterized by large population growth rates, insufficient …
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Electricity production from sugar industries in Africa : a case of South Africa
Low access to electricity is a problem in Africa. Apart from South Africa and Mauritius access to electricity generally falls below 30% of the population. The situation is even worse in the rural areas which housed about 70% or more of the population and whose access to modern energy services in …
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Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown very rapidly over the last decade. Demand for light vehicles has rapidly increased in this period, albeit from a very low base. Growing demand is almost entirely supplied by the import of used vehicles from the developed world. This has led to an enormous …
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Three Essays on Africa
… and Government Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa This paper examines the relationship between climate change, rising urbanization rates, and regime types in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This project uses the national-level ND-GAIN (Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative) …
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Education in West Africa
… cost-effective strategy for sub-Saharan Africa to improve educational outcomes and highlight the importance of parental management in the education production function. These results also highlight the crucial role parents with little to no education can play in improving their child’s …
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Education in West Africa
… cost-effective strategy for sub-Saharan Africa to improve educational outcomes and highlight the importance of parental management in the education production function. These results also highlight the crucial role parents with little to no education can play in improving their child’s …
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Compositional Analysis of the Martian Meteorites Northwest Africa 6342 and Northwest Africa 10961
… shergottites. The Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 6342 recovered from Algeria in 2010 and the Martian meteorite NWA 10961 recovered from Morocco in 2016 are both classified as members of the geochemically intermediate family of poikilitic shergottites based on their mineral …
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Democratic development states in Southern Africa : a study of Botswana and South Africa
… emergence of Democratic Developmental States in Africa, this thesis analyses the concept within the context of two Southern African states: Botswana and South Africa. In this regard, it critically analyses the extent to which Botswana and South Africa can be considered to be Democratic …
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Feeding unrest : food prices, food security and protest participation in Africa and South Africa
Recent food riots throughout much of Africa and the Middle East in the wake of spikes in international food commodity prices have fueled a renewed academic and popular interest in the long-recognized connection between food prices and social unrest. This dissertation addresses the question how do …
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Industry concentration in South Africa
… areas is an important policy issue. South Africa has experienced a socio-political policy of apartheid that had an industrial counterpart: an industrial decentralisation programme. Since 1994 and the country's first democratic elections, a new industrial policy has been pursued with the aim …
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U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in Africa
… the path to defeat.” Recent terrorist attacks in Africa like the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya indicate a reality contrary to that narrative. This paper draws from three case studies to determine the validity of the current administration's assertions, utilizing the 2010 National Security Strategy …
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Multimodal transport in South Africa
Both the physical and the contractual aspects of multimodal transport have caused and continue to cause significant legal problems. Physical multimodal transport, is the carriage of goods from place A to place B by more than one mode of transport. Contractual multimodal transport takes place when a …
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