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Dangling by a thread: how sharp are the Chinese scissors?

Author: Kaplinsky, Raphael ; Morris, Mike Date: 2006 China's growth spurt began in the late 1970s. But it was only in second half of the 1990s that its impact on the global economy began to be felt. China's exportdrive was not unique by East Asian standards (Figure 1.1). However, its size China ... Read more c b n d
Data and model assumptions for an age structured production model of the Tristan lobster fishery

Author: Johnston, Susan J Date: 2010 An age-structured production model (ASPM) is to be developed for each of the four islands of the Tristan da Cunha group (Tristan, Inaccessible, Nightingale and Gough). The model will be sex-disaggregated as there are substantial differences ... Read more c b
Data inputs for the African Penguin Spheniscus demersus model to be coupled to the pelagic OMP

Author: Plagányi, Éva E ; Robinson, William Date: 2008 This document serves as an updated compilation of all data currently available as inputs to the African penguin spatial model which is to be coupled to the pelagic OMP. The data are presented here together with some comments as to how they ... Read more
Data needed for future stock assessments of the South African hake resources

Author: Rademeyer, Rebecca A Date: 2013 This paper summarises the data needed (or perhaps needed) as input to the future southern African hake assessments which are to provide the Operating Models for the hake OMP revision exercise due for completion in September 2014. Read more
Data presently available for the South African kingklip resource assessment

Author: Brandão, Anabela ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2008 This paper sets out the data that are presently available and data that are still required for the assessment analyses of the South African kingklip resource. Read more
The data used in the 2019 sardine assessment.

Author: de Moor, Carryn ; Merkle, Dagmar ; Coetzee, Janet ; van der Lingen, Carl Date: 2019 Data to which the 2019 assessment of the South African sardine resource is to be conditioned are listed Read more
The deadly hand of denial: Governance and politically-instigated AIDS denialism in South Africa

Author: Geffen, Nathan ; Cameron, Edwin Date: 2009 The 26 May 2005 issue of Drum magazine, a widely-read South African monthly, featured a comparison of two deeply contrasting approaches to treating HIV. The strap-line was 'They both look the picture of health.? And they're both living with ... Read more c b n d
Decentralised industry, poverty and development in rural KwaZulu

Author: Ardington, Elisabeth Date: 28 May 2015 Industrial decentralisation, rural development, Kwazulu Read more
Decolonizing Learning in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Masuku, Bianca ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Oct 2022 A panel presentation for the Open Education Conference 2022 by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) team at UCT with collaborators from Yusuf Maitama Sule University in Kano, Nigeria and Chinoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe. Read more c b
Decomposing the variance in southern elephant seal weaning mass : partitioning environmental signals and maternal effects

Author: Oosthuizen, W C ; Bester, M N ; Altwegg, R ; McIntyre, T ; de Bruyn, P J N Date: 2015 Predator populations are likely to respond to bottom-up processes, but there remains limited understanding of how wide-ranging marine predators respond to environmentally driven temporal variation in food availability. Widespread declines of ... Read more
A Decomposition of Growth of the Real Wage Rate for South Africa: 1970 - 2000

Author: Mazumdar, Dipak ; van Seventer, Dirk Date: Mar 2002 This paper examines the potential trade-off between growth in employment and growth in wages. In order to assess the trade-off between employment growth and real wage growth, we make use of a simple decomposition model, following Mazumdar ... Read more c b n a
Defining children's constitutional right to social services

Author: Dutschke, Mira Date: Jul 2006 Read more c b n d
Delivering a research mission in an ICT-mediated information age: The case of the University of Cape Town

Author: Gray, Eve Date: 31 Aug 2009 This report provides an overview of policies, practices and infrastructure at the University of Cape Town (UCT) related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for research publication. The report will primarily be ... Read more c b n a
Demad side management alternatives to system expansion

Author: Thorne, Steve Date: 1992 Read more
Demand-side management in restructured electricity industries: An international review (Working Document)

Author: Clark, Alix Date: 1999 Read more
Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea

Author: Shin, Doh ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2004 Winston Churchill asserted in 1947 that “democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” To date, this lesser-evil notion of democracy has been tested only in the post-communist ... Read more c b n d
Democracy, poverty and inclusive growth in South Africa since 1994

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2013 The formal establishment of representative democracy in South Africa provided a weak impetus to effective pro-poor policy-making. Poverty and inequality (of both opportunities and outcomes) have persisted. Political parties want to be seen ... Read more c b n d
Democracy, traditional leadership and the international economy in South Africa

Author: Koelble, Thomas Date: 28 May 2015 The paper argues that in order to adequately analyse the development of postcolonial democracy – in this case South Africa – a theoretical model has to take into account the context within which that democratic experiment finds itself in. This ... Read more
The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: The cases of South Korea and South Africa

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Shin, Doh Chull Date: 2005 Traditional cultural values have long been seen by scholars as a significant obstacle to political and economic development in the post colonial world, especially in Africa and Asia. Publics which prioritise things like the collective good ... Read more c b n d
Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes

Author: Logan, Carolyn ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2010 The emerging literature on the "quality of democracy" promises to advance our knowledge of democratization in several ways. First of all, it takes us beyond the narrow assessment of stability and endurance of democratic political regimes to ... Read more c b n d