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Spatialising African indigenous customs in Langa
1.1 Background African Traditional Customs form an important part in the lives of millions of people on the African continent. They are the thread that stitches together the multifaceted blanket of African cultural variety. 1.2 Issue The problem is that of designing an African city that is …
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A selection of applications at Canada Customs
Canada Customs is currently faced with problems of overcrowding. This situation causes lost revenue and potential control problems, and detracts from its public image. Customs administration is interested in determining what changes, if any, can be made to help alleviate the problem. The goal of …
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Pictures of Rustic Customs and Manners in Colombian Literature
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The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
… amplified knowledge of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
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Marriage in the Talmud : its concepts, laws and customs
… my knowledge, no complete picture of the various customs and ceremonials connected with betrothal and marriage in Talmudic times, has so far been presented. I have tried to rectify this omission. In my final chapters, I have tried to give not only a clear picture of the type of betrothal and …
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A case study of the Customs Administrative Penalty Provision as contained in the Customs & Excise Act, No.91 of 1964 of South Africa, and a comparison of the South African regime with selected foreign customs penalty regime
… and the Revised Kyoto Convention of the World Customs Organization (WCO) which has, as its objective, the elimination of barriers to efficient international trade. This dissertation focuses on customs penalty regime as utilised by South Africa. The South African regime is compared with certain …
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Comparison on the rules of origin for customs and excise
… rules of origin. In some respects, current customs and excise legislation relating to rules of origin places South Africa at a disadvantage in the global arena. In some cases, preferential rules of origin with developed countries benefit South Africa little if they are not properly …
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Socioeconomics of tobacco use in the Southern African Customs Union
… and women from countries in the Southern African Customs Union, using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland; and the National Income Dynamics Study for South Africa. This paper finds that among both men and women, cigarette use is higher in urban areas, …
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"When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
… commemoration, and mourning. But these customs greatly differed according to gender, both in what they consisted of and who was responsible for carrying them out. This thesis examines wills, diaries, correspondence, grave markers, prints, and newspapers of eighteenth-century Virginians, …
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The decline of piston manufacturers in the Southern African Customs Union
… piston manufacturers in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). SACU is comprised of the following five member states; South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. Owing to the SACU agreement, these countries have enjoyed fairly good trade flows in goods and services amongst each …
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A case study on customs trade facilitation at Zambia's Kasumbalesa border post
… goods and people across borders. The World Customs Organization, among many other organizations, has been in the fore-front of promoting these trade facilitation techniques. This qualitative case study has an objective of analyzing the current trade facilitation techniques used at …
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The export of solid wood products from southern customs districts, 1967-80
… and value and is broken down by year, commodity, customs district and country of destination. This information is presented in tabular form along with a description of trends in the export of each product. The final phase of the study involved the application of constant-market-share analysis to …
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Bound in Bermuda and Virginia: the First Century of Slave Laws and Customs
… looks at how the first century of slave laws and customs in the respective colonies varied so greatly. Relatively speaking, slave laws and customs in colonial Virginia were harsh when compared to the laws and customs of colonial Bermuda. This difference was due to the difference in the type of …
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"Much Depends on Local Customs:"The WPA's New Deal for New Orleans, 1935-1940
The Works Progress Administration came to New Orleans in 1935, a time of economic uncertainty and even fear. The implementation of the relief embodied in the WPA was influenced by local factors that reinforced the existing social order at first but that left a framework through which that order …
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Assessment of the Challenges Behind the Ineffective Customs Clearance of Goods at Sea Port
… was about the Challenges behind Ineffective Customs Clearance of Goods at Sea Port a case study of Medical Stores Dar Es Salaam. Most of the drugs and medical supplies are procured by MSD from oversea suppliers through international tenders as per threshold set by PPA, 2004. All imported …
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Constraints oriented approaches in advancing spatial data infrastructure: case of Southern African Customs Union
… for this study, with the five Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries forming the scope for the investigations. This study focussed on investigating SACU countries SDIs and the associated sub-region with the aim of fostering on-going improvement. To do that, the prevailing SDI …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of customs strategies in mitigating smuggling of goods in Zambia.
… to investigate the effectiveness of the existing customs strategies in mitigating smuggling of goods in Zambia with the following study objectives; to assess the effect of taxes on smuggling in Zambia; to analyze the relationship between willingness to pay taxes and smuggling in Zambia; to examine …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of customs strategies in mitigating smuggling of goods in Zambia.
… to investigate the effectiveness of the existing customs strategies in mitigating smuggling of goods in Zambia with the following study objectives; to assess the effect of taxes on smuggling in Zambia; to analyze the relationship between willingness to pay taxes and smuggling in Zambia; to examine …
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The Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Tanzania: Experiences and Challenges for East African Customs Union
… articulating the implications for East African Customs Union that was assented to in 2005. The study aims to do this by finding out the progress made in the process of the development of EPZs in Tanzania, its relevance, challenges and appreciation in Tanzania and in the Regional East African …
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