The global price surge in food and energy in recent years has put considerable strain on consumers. This is especially so because food and energy are the elements of consumer's non-discretionary spending. Confining interest to the working class in Lesotho, this work is an attempt to quantify the...

The opportunistic behavior inherent in the state-agent relationship leads the public sector into a service delivery conundrum. The study indicates that such a conundrum can be explained by the classic prisoners’ dilemma outcome and it results from the adoption of exogenous wage policy...