Abstract This study explores the impact a refugee influx has on the decentralisation process. It uses the case study of Loulouni, southern Mali, in 2005-2006, where a camp for Ivorian refugees was established. Using ...

Islamic women’s rights remain a widely contested issue within the international relations discourse. This research attempts to address this issue by examining Islamic women’s rights in Turkey and Iraq. Balancing women’s ...

This quantitative study is designed to examine possible cross-national differences between a Zambian and a South Africa student sample on specific aspects of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory in relation to software ...

The conventional theory of financial intermediation suggests that banks are the main conduit between savers and borrowers however, research has shown that international banks are losing importance in intermediating i.e. ...

Corporate finance theory suggests that bank’s private information about borrowers lets them hold up borrowers for higher interest rates and that hold up power should increase with borrower risk, and if so, banks with private ...

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) firms in South Africa are usually constrained from competing effectively by the unavailability of financial resources. The situation worsens when the SME is in financial distress and has ...

The authors offer a social democratic alternative to neo-liberalism consisting of three recommendations. First, liberalisation must be accompanied by social policies that minimise social costs. Second, policies must be ...

HIV/AIDS remains a global pandemic that is affecting millions of people. The advent of antiretroviral medication in the late 1980s has led to major advances in clinical treatment that has turned the deadly disease into ...

Black women academics at the University of South Africa (UNISA) are faced with the same challenges as other women in leadership positions in academic institutions have to contend with. At UNISA there are institutional ...

This research study investigates challenges affecting the supply and demand side factors of the broadband ecosystem that hinder the market development of broadband in rural areas in South Africa and how policy and ...