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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"African trade"”.
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Understanding world and South African trade in services
Services trade has become a significant component of world trade and has been given more academic profile since its inclusion in the Uruguay Round of GATT trade talks. However, the paucity of academic work means that services trade is still poorly understood and lacks significant statistical analysis. …
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The challenges of border issues, documentation, and infrastructure in intra-African trade
In 21st century post-colonial Africa, African leaders have visualised, mobilised, and worked towards economic advancement nationally, regionally, and continentally. In the past 60 or more years there has been a concentration on regional integration as to achieve economic growth and increase global …
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African trade unions : - labour ideology - industrial and commercial workers' union of Africa
… methods have best devised in the urban African context simply to overcome the difficulty of surviving; the growth of intensive informal market networks is perhaps one of the most significant indicators about the attitude of ·victim people to their kind of existence. I have not been able …
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Towards a theory of pedagogy, learning and knowledge in an 'everyday' context : a case study of South African trade union
… and forms of pedagogy and knowledge in the trade union organisational context. It seeks to establish how these vary across sites within the union and in the context of broader historical changes in trade unions' social and political role. The thesis also aims to contribute to the development …
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Politics and trade in Africa : Does Sino-African trade and investment significantly influence Africa's United Nations General Assembly voting behaviour?
… the foreign policy consequences of Sino-Africa trade relations. Using a panel of ten Sub-Saharan countries, this paper builds on the theoretical understanding of dependency theory, to explore the relationship between economic dependence and political alignment in the United Nations General …
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Adoption of a Digital Currency Towards a Singular Continental Market: A Catalyst for African Economic Integration and Revolutionising Pan-African Trade Payment Systems
… integration and facilitate cross-boundary trade. African states, recognising this potential, are exploring the creation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) to harness the advantages of decentralised technology while maintaining regulatory oversight. The inherent nature of CBDCs makes …
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Strategic Unionism : the political role of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in South Africa and what it means for black workers
This dissertation looks at the political role of trade unions in developing countries. Trade unions and particularly their engagement in political unionism have been absent from the development literature in recent decades. However, recently there has been a renewed interest in the role of trade …
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Social movement trade unionism: An investigation of workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions practices on election and living wage issues
… workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) practices on elections and living wage issues from a social movement perspective from the Apartheid (South Africa) and Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Zimbabwe) …
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An analysis of the experiences of learners who completed a university-based programme for trade union women what factors facilitated or hindered their 'plough back' of learning to build their trade union organization?
… set out to explore the effects of learning on a trade union organisation. The emphasis on learning in the South African trade union movement is often whether it results in building and strengthening union organisation. The trade union jargon used to describe this phenomenon is 'plough back'. The …
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What factors contributed to the failure of the 2011 municipal strike?
… is further unique in that the majority trade union, the South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu), is affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) who in turn is in alliance with the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC in turn is the outright majority …
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Comparative advertising between the conflicting priorities of fair competition, trademark holder's rights and consumer information under South African law compared to the European and German approach on this issue
… the task to balance antagonistic interests of trademark proprietors, advertisers, consumers and the public at large. The thesis examines the South African, the European and the German legal system implemented a legal balance and presents consequences, commonalities and differences. After …
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The question of regional integration in Africa: A critical analysis of Kenya's trade, infrastructure, and security in the context of the AfCFTA
… to provide a critical analysis of Kenya's trade, infrastructure, and security in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This is important since it would give interested parties a glance at how prepared Kenya is for the AfCFTA as well as offer a comparison with its …
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Language, Ideology and Power in Uganda
… ethnocratic corruption by invoking regional, Pan-Africanist conceptions of linguistic respectability and political legitimacy. These include the widespread association of standard Kiswahili, as historically used in East African trade-union and military activity, with national integration and …
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Redefining ‘Chick-Lit’ and Women’s Publishing within Trade Publishing in South Africa
… under the term ‘chick-lit’) within a South African publishing context, using sales history from Nielsen’s Bookscan, Sunday Times reviews and participant interviews. Findings show that the split in South Africa is not as obvious in certain Western countries, but two trends are clear: …
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AfCFTA: the remedy to an enduring mischief?
… This mischief has been and is afflicting African trade and development. Its influence has permeated the ideological foundation of African integration and has been inimical to growth on the continent. The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement is the African Union's hopeful attempt …
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The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa
The paper begins with an introduction of trade unions in South Africa, focusing on the union membership trend in the last two decades of the twentieth century. This is followed by a review of work on earnings functions and modelling South African trade unions in chapter 2. The aim of this chapter …
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Is China the Answer? The Effect of Chinese Engagement on Economic and Human Development in Africa
… unique approach that blurs the line between aid, trade, and investment, China‘s search for resource security has injected new life into Africa‘s developmental efforts. To Africa's benefit, the relationship has boosted African trade volumes, productivity, physical infrastructure, and foreign …
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Strategies and revitalisation for survival of trade unions in Africa : the role of Information Communication Technologies
African trade unions are faced with dramatic trade union membership decline and some of the trade unions have seen the need to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a strategy to reverse the membership decline. There has been a discussion based on the way trade unions use the new …
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Exploring the critical success factors for the financing of public-private partnerships in the roads and transport sector: a case study of Gauteng province.
… and rail infrastructure are critical for trade as they contribute to the enhancement of inter-African trade initiatives and agreements. This study employed a thematic analytic approach to identify the critical success factors of financing PPPs within Gauteng province using four case …
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Whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement satisfies the requirements for ‘legality' under the applicable WTO law governing regional trade agreements (RTAS)
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement is a potentially transformative regional trade agreement (RTA) which aims to stimulate intra-African trade. It exists alongside other RTAs, and alongside the World Trade Organisation (the WTO), which is the umbrella body for international …
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