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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"financial resilience"”.
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SME Globalisation and Supply Chain Finance: Factors to Adoption of Technology-based Solutions
… Supply Chain Finance (SCF) solutions to enhance financial resilience and operational efficiency. Despite the growing necessity of technology-based SCF solutions, such as blockchain and Bank Payment Obligation (BPO), SMEs face substantial barriers to adoption due to limited financial resources, …
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Budgeting for cyclicality in a healthcare setting – accounting for economic shocks in the budgetary process
… shocks. Recent events, such as the global financial crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic, have shown that the budgetary response is often insufficient to maintain a consistent level of service. This dissertation addresses these significant challenges by demonstrating how healthcare budgeting …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of activity-based costing for costefficiency in South Africa Retailers
… accuracy, operational performance, and financial decision-making. A purposive sampling technique was used to select a representative sample of registered retail firms identified through the CIPC databases. Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were conducted with …
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FinTech ecosystem driven economic growth in China under the new normal: from the perspective of households
… digital transformation, understanding household financial behaviour in China has become increasingly important for both academic research and public policy. This thesis examines how economic policy uncertainty, digital finance, and income volatility shape Chinese households’ consumption, …
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Mapping and tracking the complexity of financial flows through non-state non-profit (faith-based) health providers in Kenya
… often historically remained elusive in terms of financial transparency. This thesis reports on a multiple case study conducted with two non-profit faith-based health providers in Kenya, namely the Africa Inland Church Kijabe Hospital; and Nyumbani-Children of God Relief Institute in Nairobi …
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Resilience in Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Focus on the Procurement Decisions
This thesis looks into how the need for resilience in humanitarian aid supply chains influences procurement strategy decisions. Increasingly, the need for resilience in supply chains has become undoubted and management researchers have prescribed diverse ways of pursuing it; not only so that supply …
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Curative Measures in Law for Financially Distressed Municipalities
… system and to propose legal solutions to address financially distressed municipalities. Unpacking the South African intergovernmental fiscal system helped to refine the analytic tool and apply it to the Intergovernmental Monitoring, Support, and Intervention Bill (IMSI). The analysis assesses the …
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Finding ontological security in a world of precarity : a sociological study of the use of high cost credit by people on low incomes
… credit to understand why people with the fewest financial resources are prepared to pay so much for credit. This thesis is situated in the field of microfinance, but the analysis also demonstrates relevance in the sociological fields of emotions, consumption, poverty studies, and working-class …
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Essays on the economic and financial challenges facing South Africa's commodity sector
This thesis is comprised of three standalone articles, each exploring a different dimension of South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGM) sector. The PGM sector is an insightful case study given that it is a microcosm of a deeply unequal country, marked by distrust between three distinct spheres – …
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The effect of corporate bonds spread variability on non-financial firms’ financing structure: further evidence from emerging markets
… factors affecting emerging markets economic and financial resilience is of great importance for the global economy stability, financial integration, social development and poverty reduction. In addition, it contributes to a cross-country examination of developmental levels and investment …