ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central question that this research report attempts to answer is how southern African countries can leapfrog from agrarian to knowledge-based economies. There is no single answer to this question, but rather a complex solution. This can best be answered using scenario...

Based on the Bureau of Economic Research (BER's) 2005 HIV/AIDS survey, this paper provides a snapshot view of the nature and the extent of the impact of HIV/AIDS on companies of different sizes in South Africa, as well as their response to the epidemic. Whereas the focus of most of the previous...

The ongoing financial and economic crisis (FEC) that started in 2007 already caused and still causes unprecedented damage for the economy worldwide. Its reasons and consequences illustrate the complex and dynamic environment in which companies act nowadays: Increasingly harmonized markets and...

The research seeks to understand how small medium and micro enterprises in theVhembe District use information and communication technology (ICT) in localeconomic development (LED). The study was conducted against the backgroundof national policy debates about the potential of ICT to promote...

Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...

This paper is an account of institutional and spatial shifts in the Sydney basin economy that coalesce around Australia's current, long period of prosperity. The paper briefly sources this prosperity, noting the key shifts towards the financial and professional services sectors that accompany...