– Support networks and racial inequality in Namibia
Annalena Oppel - World Development, 2021
Community support is a critical source to sustain livelihoods in the Global South. At the same time, these practices can exhibit unequal dynamics such as disincentives, hierarchies, or adverse inclusion of individuals. However, an understanding of such is primarily tied to the conceptual space of...
Annalena Oppel - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
Community or interpersonal support as a critical source of livelihood sustenance in the Global South can exhibit unequal dynamics. An understanding of these practices is primarily tied to the conceptual space of poverty or small communities. Less is known about how social support systems might...
This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region’s Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa.
Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven...
Special economic zones (SEZ) in Africa are generally regarded as underperforming relative to their peers in the rest of the world. To explain this underperformance and to support success in the future it is important to analyse the key features and what is lacking in the design of African special...
Cornelius Dube, Wellington Matsika, Gamuchirai Chiwunze - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
Special economic zones (SEZs) in Africa are generally regarded as underperforming relative to their peers in the rest of the world. This study focuses on the design features of the SEZ in Africa that may help explain this underperformance.
Literature was reviewed to identify the key design...
Reena das Nair, Namhla Landani - UNU-WIDER, 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
Supermarkets are strong catalysts to stimulate the growth and development of producers and suppliers of processed food and manufactured products in Southern Africa.
This paper assesses the role of supermarkets and governments in developing supplier capabilities through supplier development...
Margaret E. Kruk, Adanna Chukwuma, Godfrey Mbaruku, Hannah H. Leslie - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
Objective: To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries.
Methods: We pooled nationally representative data from service provision assessment surveys of health facilities in Kenya, Malawi,...
Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, David McLennan, Michell Mpike - UNU-WIDER, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model—NAMOD—which has been developed for use by government. Following a section on the importance of social security in Namibia and recent related studies, the paper outlines the tax-benefit policies that are...