Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, DougDate:2020A prior distribution for the bias of the hydro‐acoustic survey estimates of the biomass of the South African
anchovy is developed by considering the bias associated with the individual sources of error.Read more
Author:Brixiova, Zuzana; Meng, Qingwei; Ncube, MthuliDate:06 Jun 2017The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa’s resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two regional economic communities – the East ...Read more
Author:Nijzink, Lia; Mozaffar, Shaheen; Azevedo, ElisabeteDate:2006While modern parliaments in Africa receive little attention in the scholarly literature, they are receiving considerable attention from the international donor community. Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party ...Read morecbnd
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2010Though revised operational objectives should only be finalised through an iterative process as the results of simulation tests of Candidate Management Procedures (CMPs), and hence their trade-off implications, become available, this process ...Read more
Author:Maraire, WesleyDate:May 2016The South African clothing industry has shed over 70 000 jobs in the last decade. This has given rise to huge debate about the role of the Bargaining Council and Minister of Labour in regulating wages and employment conditions. The Bargaining ...Read morecbnd
Author:Standish, BarryDate:Aug 2002Towards the end of 2000, a study was commissioned into the projected economic impact of the new Cape Town International Convention Centre. The study set out to measure the macroeconomic impact of the Convention Centre as well as identify ...Read morecbna
Author:Ndikumana, Leonce; Sarr, MareDate:06 Jun 2017This paper aims to provide theoretical and empirical insights into the puzzling simultaneous rise in foreign direct investment inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two questions: ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2008Both maximum likelihood and Bayesian methodologies are developed to analyse the photo-ID and genotypic capture-recapture data available for the C1 and C3 breeding sub-stocks of humpback whales in the western Indian Ocean. A simple exponential ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2008Maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches are applied to estimate parameters of a simple experimental growth model for the humpback whales of breeding sub-stock B1 from photo-ID and genotypic capture-recapture data for all observation sites ...Read more