Browsing Masters Degrees (Economics) by Title
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Labour market returns to educational attainment, school quality, and numeracy in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the extent to which educational attainment, school quality and numeric competency influence individuals’ employment and earnings prospects in the South African labour market using ... -
Land reform in South Africa : a case study of the Witzenberg pals initiative
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The post-1994 South African government introduced Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) in an attempt to address the economic inequality of the country. The primary goal of BEE policy is to assist black South ... -
Leadership and performance: a South African public sector case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Leaders in public sector departments in South Africa operate in an environment that is different from that in which private sector departments operate. They also have an array of challenges, but still ... -
The macro-economic impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa faces one of the world's most severe HIV/AIDS epidemics. Whereas the disease was initially only regarded as a serious health crisis, it is now clear that the epidemic will also have economic ... -
n Ondersoek na die arbeidsprobleme vir wynboere in Wes-Kaapland
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1969)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: no abstract available -
Die ontwikkeling van die Suid-Afrikaanse nywerheidsektor en 'n kritiese evaluering van die huidige beleid
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : According to endogenous growth theory, a country's economic growth rate is influenced by government policy. Industrial policy is important for influencing the sources of growth, because it influences the ... -
Peacebuilding in Mozambique with special reference to the UN policy on landmine removal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The end of the Cold War had a profound impact on the qualitative and quantitative nature of the UN's peace and security agenda, representing a shift from traditional peacekeeping to a broader, more ... -
The possible interaction between competition and anti-dumping policy suitable for the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recently countries have become more aware of the potential anti-competitive effects of anti-dumping measures. This is mostly due to the view that anti-dumping measures, as trade policy instruments, are ... -
Private sector impact investment in water purification infrastructure in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Access to safe drinking water (also called potable water) is a basic human right. Humanity is, however, facing a significant decline in the quantity and quality of available fresh water. The consequences ... -
The properties of cycles in South African financial variables and their relation to the business cycle
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)The goal of this thesis is twofold: it aims, firstly, at a description of cycles in South African financial variables and, secondly, at the evaluation of the relationship between cycles in financial variables and the ... -
Re-assessing the South African household inflation expectations survey through a sequential mixed methods approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Many central banks rely on survey-based measures of household inflation expectations as a gauge of policy credibility and an input for forecasting inflation. An accurate measure of the public’s inflation ... -
Rising unemployment in South Africa : an intertemporal analysis using a Birth Cohort Panel
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)A new political dispensation in 1994 heralded a period of optimism for many ordinary South Africans, who hoped for freedom and an escape from poverty. Since this transition, however, South Africa has registered steady ... -
The role of education and financial inclusion in Africa : the case of selected African countries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The importance of financial inclusion to a country in promoting inclusive growth cannot be over emphasised, but the role of education in fostering financial inclusion has not been well established in ... -
The role of mining in the economy of South West Africa/Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1986)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While compiling the national accounts for SWA/Namibia over the past seven years my interest was drawn to the overwhelming impact mining has on the country's overall economic activity. This tempted me ... -
The role of sponsorship marketing in the integrated marketing communication programme with reference to the German insurance company Cosmos Direkt
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sponsorship marketing, as part of the integrated marketing communication programme, is a relatively new field of application. There is still a lack of research in many areas of this field, especially ... -
School production modelling to strengthen government monitoring programmes in developing countries
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)Education production function analysis is widely recognised as one important area of research that needs to inform education policymaking, specifically policy relating to the mix of funded inputs in a schooling system. ... -
Schumpeter se siening van die kapitalisme
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Socio-economic development of the Coloured community since the Theron Commission
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Poverty is a widespread phenomenon within the coloured community of South Africa. In 1976 the Theron Commission reported on coloured poverty and recommended widespread reform to the apartheid system ... -
State provision of social security : some theoretical, comparative and historical perspectives with reference to South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1992-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Societies are imaginative when setting up non-marl\et responses to deal v1ith insecurity and deprivation. The result is that there are many different services (such as income support, personal welfare ... -
Uitvoerdiversifiserende ontwikkeling van die mineraalryk Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1994-11)ENGLISH SUMMARY: South Africa has limited export diversification. The govemment has instituted several export incentive schemes since the beginning of the seventies to increase manufactured exports in particular, but ...
