ABSTRACT Social security means any kind of collective measures or activities designed to ensure that members of society meet basic needs with adequate protection from the contingencies for required standard of living under a certain society. This study focused on the influence of the social security fund in the socio-economic welfare of the pensioners. It respectively addressed the livelihood strategy after retirement, the procedure and method used to pay pensions and strategies for social se...
Abstract The existing studies on the relationship between development finance and employment creation provide conclusive empirical evidence. This study was conducted to evaluate the development finance and employment creation from 2004 to 2014 at the Development Bank of Namibia. This study used a sample of 17 credit and lending employees from the Development Bank of Namibia head office. Seventeen Questionnaires were distributed using a simple random sampling technique and all questionnaires ...
ABSTRACT Change has become important and unavoidable in today’s business environment. The dynamic business environment of today requires organisations to appoint leaders of a required calibre. To effectively appoint such leaders especially at the board level, criteria is required to determine the skills possessed by an individual. The study was conducted to investigate and establish the existence of criteria for appointment of board members in selected public enterprises within the road in...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the nature of petty crimes that are committed within the City of Windhoek. The study further aimed at establishing the social characteristics of those who are committing such crimes as well as identifying possible hot spots where these crimes are likely to take place. This was achieved through consulting and analysing police records and criminals‟ profiles, interviewing the victims of petty crimes and persons arrested by the police and ch...
Abstract The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate the role of leadership in water technology innovations in enhancing job creation in the Kavango East Region. The main theoretical framework comes from theories on leadership as a key aspect to socio-economic development. Inclusive in this framework were perspectives of leadership support such as resources allocation, effective communication and clear vision as the most important qualities and actions which a leader needs to ...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at analysing the role of stakeholders in enhancing the Local Economic Development (LED) initiative at the City of Windhoek (CoW). The study examined stakeholders’ collaboration and management roles in enhancing the LED in the CoW. The study made recommendations to policymakers and principals on how LED can positively impact the livelihood of the people in the CoW. The study adopted a qualitative research design because the design allows the researcher to inter...
ABSTRACT South Africa transferred legislative power to the Namibian authority to conduct its external relations in 1990 when the country attained its independence. Since then the country has been projecting the economic content of its Foreign Policy. Poverty eradication, human resource development, empowerment of the poor, the needy and the weak form the top priorities for Namibia's foreign policy. The foreign policy of a country draws its authority, legitimacy and mandate from many internal...
ABSTRACT This study is a critical review of the implementation of the Namibian Public Service Charter (NPSC) introduced in 1997. It is based on the recommendations of the Wage and Salary Commission Report of 1995. The NPSC is a national .framework that guides the improvement of service delivery in Namibia. It has nine general principles, namely standards; information; courtesy and helpfulness; consultation and choice; accountability; openness; and nondiscrimination; quality of service; and v...
ABSTRACT Corruption has been identified as an area of grave concern in most societies, including Namibia. For Namibia, the fight against corruption is not simple, but it is an economic and social issue. If allowed to persist, corruption has the potential to reverse the remarkable progress and successes recorded since independence in 1990. Also, it can contribute to a budget deficit, thereby fuelling inflation. Because of its negative effects, the GRN has introduced several anti-corruption me...
ABSTRACT The housing sector plays a significant role in the economy. However, house prices are presumed to be more volatile than other goods and services, because of their high demand. This study aimed to conduct an empirical analysis of the determinants of house price volatility in Namibia. Moreover, the direction of causality between house price volatility and the macroeconomic determinants was examined. The ARCH and GARCH models together with the VAR/VECM approaches were used to analyse ...
ABSTRACT Tourism has been regarded as one of the most suitable industries for the development of remote rural locations in Namibia. The potential for tourism activities to enhance the standards of living among rural communities is a viable endeavour. Towards that end, Community Based Natural Resource Management concepts have been applied all over Namibia in an attempt to empower local communities and allow them to generate economic benefits from their natural environments. The problem concer...
Abstract This study attempts to analyze the impact of capital structure on the financial performance of firms listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange. The numerous capital structure theories and inconclusive empirical evidence on the relationship between capital structure and profitability motivated the researcher to carry out this study. A quantitative study using secondary data from financial statements published on the websites of 21 of the 32 firms listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange us...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore students’ perceptions of the service quality offered by the Namibia Business School in relation to its degree and diploma programmes as well as to measure the gap between students’ perceptions and expectations from the Namibia Business School. The study chose a sample of n=114 from a population size of N= 228 of the programmes that ran on a long-term basis, where students would have been engaged with the school for a longer period and these s...
ABSTRACT There has been no research on gender roles and the triple burden of women in the Rehoboth area. Yet women in Rehoboth as many elsewhere are faced with socially ascribed roles in production, reproduction and community. This research seeks to explore and understand the gender division of labour and the gender relations within this community. As a diverse country, Namibia has different cultures, we witness that women and men are taught their gender roles through the use of specific cul...
ABSTRACT The thrust of this study was to estimate the potential output per capita of Zimbabwe using Structural Vector Autoregressive method (SVAR). The study used quarterly data for the period 1990 to 2012 on the following variables: Gross Domestic Product per Capita (GDPC), Consumer Price Index and unemployment rate presented as yet, pt and ut respectively. The long‐run SVAR model estimation was done to show the permanent effect of unemployment, consumer price index and gross domestic pro...