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  Africa's first welfare state: the experience of South African firms doing business in Botswana

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005

  This executive summary presents the experience of South African businesses operating in Botswana. The purpose of the study was to identify some of the pitfalls associated with doing business in a country such as Botswana, while also giving credit to some of the success stories. Findings include:
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  The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study explores public-private partnerships that existed between 2002 and early 2003 in higher education provision in South Africa.
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  Banking the underserved: new opportunities for commercial banks - exploring the business case

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper reports on a study documenting the financial experience of a diverse sample of commercial banks that have opted to expand into microfinance as a new line of business.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Productivity, wages and employment in South Africa’s manufacturing sector, 1970-2002

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper investigates the relationship between labour productivity, average real wages and employment in South Africa’s manufacturing sector, using cointegrating VAR and VECM econometric techniques.The author found a long-run equilibrium relationship between real wages and productivity, with an elasticity of 0,38 – indicating that productivity has grown more rapidly than wages.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  The interaction between growth, openness and inequality: inter-temporal Ramsey growth model analysis of South Africa

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  This paper examines South Africa as a case study in discussing the effects of openness, growth and equality.
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  Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

  War on Want, 2004

  The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
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  Engendering budgets: a practitioners’ guide to understanding and implementing gender-responsive budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  This guide, from the Commonwealth Secretariat, is intended to help practitioners design and implement gender-responsive budgets (GRB). The first part of the guide provides background information on GRBs. Part two outlines how to implement a government budget, as well the budget process and potential entry points for beginning gender budget work.
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  The role of community banks in South Africa: can it contribute to improve access to financial services for the poor?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  This paper examines the various types of community banking initiatives present in South Africa, ranging from informal self-help financial services to formalised membership based institutions; ways in which these institutions have changed in recent years; reasons for their success or failure; and risks and potential for future growth of the sector.

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