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Efficient Development Portfolio Design for Sub-Saharan Africa
Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Zon, Adriaan van - EcoMod Network - 2011
The Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz et al., 2009) published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country’s development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per capita...
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The price of exclusion : the economic consequences of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work
Buckup, Sebastian - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2009
Using data from a selection of ten countries in Asia and Africa, estimates the macro-economic costs of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965818
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Growth, employment and decent work in Namibia : a situation analysis
Kanyenze, Godfrey; Lapeyre, Frédéric - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966079
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Assessing vulnerable employment : the role of status and sector indicators in Pakistan, Namibia and Brazil
Sparreboom, Theo; Gier, Michael P.F de - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2008
The main focus of this paper is on how two indicators, status in employment and sectoral employment, which are standard ingredients of the economic development discourse and are both part of the ILO's set of Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), are interlinked empirically and how they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967177
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The impact of multinational enterprises on employment, training and regional development in Namibia and Zimbabwe : a preliminary assessment
Lyanda, Olukunle - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1999
Analyses the economic contributions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to the Namibian and Zimbabwean economies. Looks at certain social aspects and compares the volume, distribution and contributions of MNE capital to the two countries' economies before and after economic liberalization.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967527
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Refusal Bias in the Estimation of HIV Prevalence
Janssens, Wendy; Gaag, Jacques; Wit, Tobias Rinke de; … - In: Demography 51 (2014) 3, pp. 1131-1157
1,992 individuals in urban Namibia, which included an HIV test. We find that the bias resulting from refusal is not …
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Management of Alluvial Aquifers in Two Southern African Ephemeral Rivers: Implications for IWRM
Benito, Gerardo; Rohde, Rick; Seely, Mary; Külls, Christoph - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 4, pp. 641-667
dryland environments of the Kuiseb (Namibia) and the Buffels (South Africa) rivers. The integrated water resource management …>. Since independence in 1990, Namibia’s water resource management approach has focussed on ephemeral river basin management of …
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Groundwater Recharge Assessment for the Kalahari Catchment of North-eastern Namibia and North-western Botswana with a Regional-scale Water Balance Model
Wanke, Heike; Dünkeloh, Armin; Udluft, Peter - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 9, pp. 1143-1158
up for a 209,149 km<Superscript>2</Superscript> catchment in north-eastern Namibia and north-western Botswana. The model … from the Kalahari in Namibia, Botswana and the Southern African region under similar climatic conditions are used to verify …
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Militarization's long shadow: Namibia's legacy of armed violence
Lamb, Guy - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 31-38
Reviewing how the legacy of Namibia's armed conflict has influenced its path of post-conflict reconstruction, the … militaristic dimensions of governance and nation-building in Namibia, emphasizing the links between the legacy of armed violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941281
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Mobile wholesale and retail price interplay: The somewhat contrary case of South Africa in Africa
Stork, Christoph; Gillwald, Alison - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
of South Africa, Namibia and Kenya where regulators have reduced termination rates towards the cost of an efficient … operator. To varying degrees these have all led to lower retail prices and a significant market expansion. While both Namibia …-to-face interviews on termination rate regulations were also held with regulators in Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. The analysis is …
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