Browsing Journals by Subject "Sub-Saharan Africa"
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Collective foreign aid and development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the states of sub-Saharan Africa have been subjected to a seemingly irreversible spiral of poverty as well as social, political and economic unpredictability, causing ... -
Coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)This article assesses the socio-economic coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa using a survey and multi-attribute contingent ratings. The socio-economic and adaptation ... -
Demystifying the role of copyright as a tool for economic development in Africa : tackling the harsh effects of the transferability principle in copyright law
(2014)In the English common law tradition copyright is seen as being in the nature of a property right and thus alienable and transmissible from one person to the other. In contrast, the droit d’auteur system of Continental ... -
Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa : a scoping review
(AOSIS, 2022)The economic activities of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) drive much of the region’s economic growth and development. Despite their importance, SMEs tend to fail in their first two ... -
The effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as global paradigm shift for poverty eradication in sub-Saharan Africa
(North-West University, 2012)Despite isolated progress there seems to be no clear-cut guideline or solution to the collective eradication of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. In an attempt to overcome the above reality, the objective of the ... -
Geography versus institutions and sub-Saharan aid
(2017)This article sets out to review two opposing viewpoints in the literature, namely long-standing geographic versus institutionalist perspectives and their opposing predictions for development of poor countries, particularly ... -
Privatisation and water governance in Africa: implications of a rights-based approach
(2008)Early in the post-independence era, the control of water resources in many African states was a task of central planning. Regrettably, water management soon became a miry adventure in most African states largely because ... -
The significance of citation impact indicators of research performance in the developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa
(2014)This paper argues that Sub-Saharan Africa needs to produce more journals indexed by ISI Web of Science (WoS). Researchers from the region should also publish in other ISI indexed, reputable and high impact journals such ... -
Systematic review : decentralised health information systems implementation in sub-Saharan Africa
(AOSIS, 2022)Globally the health space is being revolutionised by rapid digital transformation to support care activities, promote healthier lifestyles and ensure informed decision making to improve service delivery. However, many ... -
Taking stock of land reform in Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)The land reform debate in Namibia has been predicated on a number of questionable assumptions and is atypical of the scenarios presented by other SADC countries. The one point of similarity is that the progress of ...