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Gastro-enteritis in the Ciskei

Author: Schweitzer, B. Date: 28 May 2015 Gastroenteritis, Ciskei Read more
Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland

Author: Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry Date: 06 Jun 2017 This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed ... Read more
Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Author: Ndlovu, Vezumuzi Date: 2006 Gender, the culturally constructed social relations between men and women, plays an important role in determining not only the role and place of both sexes in society but also impacts the distribution of power between the sexes. Men, especially ... Read more c b n d
Gender and Risk Taking in the Classroom

Author: Burns, Justine; Halliday, Simon; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 28 May 2015 We examine whether differences in risk preferences explain gender differentials in test scores amongst a large class of undergraduate microeconomics students, where students were evaluated using multiple choice questions. In each of five class ... Read more
Gender and the Politics of Reconciliation

Author: Scanlon, Helen Date: Jun 2016 Twenty-two years into South Africa’s democracy debates have re-emerged over the limitations of discourses on reconciliation in the country. This stems from the fact that in the two decades since South Africa’s rst free and fair elections a ... Read more
Gender Equity in Mathematics Achievement in East African Primary Schools: Context Counts

Author: Zuze, Tia Linda; Lee, V.E. Date: 28 May 2015 Although primary school enrollment is gradually on the increase in the developing world, differences in mathematics achievement between girls and boys persist. A complex combination of factors that is related to issues of the home environment, ... Read more
The Gender Wage Gap in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market

Author: Bhorat, Haroon ; Goga, Sumayya Date: Jul 2012 We estimate the gender wage gap for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa over the 2001 to 2007 period. Separate male and female earnings equations yields no significant decline in the conditional wage gap, regardless of whether we correct ... Read more c b n
Gender, Place and Land Tenure

Author: Weinberg, Tara Date: 2010 Read more c b a
A gender-disaggregated assessment of the South African hake resource, fitting directly to age-length keys: a new reference case

Author: Rademeyer, Rebecca A ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2009 The assessment methodology for the hake resource is refined to take account of recommendations made by the Panel at the December 2008 International Stock Assessment Workshop to move to a gender-disaggregated model, and to fit directly to age ... Read more
Gendered Educational Participation and Attainment in South Africa

Author: Schwendeman, Jennifer Date: 2014 Across much of the developing world, and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular, there are large gender disparities in educational participation and achievement. Educating girls has powerful externalities, which, if scaled, can act as a catalyst ... Read more c b n d
Gendering the Therapeutic Citizen: ARVs and Reproductive Health

Author: Richey, Lisa Ann Date: 2006 Reproductive Health as a global agenda can provide an opportunity for including “social issues” under its vast umbrella. However, so far reproductive health has failed to go beyond family planning in large-scale, high impact interventions. ... Read more c b n d
General linear mixed model analyses of male west coast rock lobster somatic growth for each of three super-areas where mark-recapture programmes take place

Author: Brandão, Anabela ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2004 Random effects model estimates of annual standardised somatic growth for male rock lobsters by super-area (Areas 8–14, 7 and 3–6) are presented in this paper. The “less data” selection has been used for these analyses. Given scant indication ... Read more
Generating the future proportion of directed sardine catch taken west of Cape Agulhas in the absence of explicit spatial management

Author: de Moor, Carryn ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: Apr 2018 The relationship governing the proportion of directed sardine catch simulated to be taken west of Cape Agulhas during projections underlying the development of OMP-18 is updated. The relationship now differs for each draw from the posterior ... Read more
Generic MPs for data-poor fisheries: Southern hemisphere collaboration.

Author: Butterworth, Doug S ; Geromont, Helena F Date: 2010 The focus of the Southern Hemisphere Collaboration amongst Australia, New Zealand and South Africa is the Management Procedure approach, also known as Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE), as a better basis to manage fisheries. The primary ... Read more
Genuine Fakes: The prevalence and implications of fieldworker fraud in a large South African survey

Author: Finn, Arden; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 We document how we diagnosed data fabrication in the National Income Dynamics Study. Since the fabrication was detected while fieldwork was still on-going, the relevant interviews were re-conducted and the fabricated data were replaced with ... Read more
Geographic Information Systems for electrification: scoping study

Author: Trollip, Hilton Date: 1998 Because this is a short scoping study with only 15 days allocated to its production the initial discussions with the most important stakeholders and the round 1 of interviews were used to provide a tight focus for the project. The main area ... Read more
Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray; Daniels, Reza Che Date: 28 May 2015 The National Income Dynamics Study is the first national panel study of South African individuals. Its objective is to track these individuals over time to study social mobility. This paper documents the survey design and a successful recontact ... Read more
Getting the whole story: How managerial perspectives on Antamina Mining Company's environmental strategy can alter the received wisdom about the role of international NGOs in shaping policy

Author: Collier, Alizanne Date: 2009 Case Studies are often used to describe interactions between multinational mining companies (Mining MNCs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), particularly on issues concerning harm to the environment or poor people. These case studies ... Read more c b n d
GLM and GLMM standardisation of the commercial abalone CPUE for Zone F

Author: Brandão, Anabela ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2012 This paper presents a GLM standardisation of the abalone CPUE data for Zone F. A GLMM approach to standardising abalone CPUE data is also investigated. Read more
GLM standardisation of recent commercial CPUE data for Greenland halibut for Canada, Portugal and Spain which allows for finer spatial stratification.

Author: Brandão, Anabela ; Rademeyer, Rebecca A ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2009 Updated CPUE data for the Canadian, Portugese and Spanish fleets are standardised using GLMs with an overdispersed Poisson error structure, and allowing for finer spatial stratification than the Division level to correct for possible ... Read more