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A Comparative Analysis Of The Accounting Practices Of Micro-Businesses In Windhoek: A Case Study Of Micro-Businesses In Incubators And Those Outside The Incubators

ABSTRACT The micro-business sector in Namibia plays a major role towards job creation. Micro-businesses in Namibia contribute about 14% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and also employ a significant number of youth. Though small in size, they impact the social lives of citizens and enhance national development. The study focused on comparing and analysing the bookkeeping and accounting practices inside and outside the Bokamoso Incubation Centre in Windhoek. The data collection instruments ...

Revenue Productivity Of The Tax System In Namibia

ABSTRACT Namibia depends mainly on tax revenue to finance the budget. This study evaluate the revenue productivity of Namibia’s overall tax system on the basis of estimates of tax buoyancy and tax elasticity, using the quarterly time series data for the period 2001 to 2014. Secondary data from ministry of finance was used in this study. Time series properties were tested using Dickey fuller (ADF) to test the existence of unit roots among the variables. The variables were found to be non-sta...

An Econometric Study Of Fixed Capital And Investment Behaviour In Nigeria Manufacturing Industries

ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study is to analyse empirically the determinants of investments behaviour in Nigerian manufacturing industries based on

Strategies To Facilitate Application Of Sociology Of Development To Nursing Practice

ABSTRACT Nursing practice is a living body of knowledge derived from different disciplines, i.e. biological, psychological and social. From the social sciences, Sociology of Development is one of the sources of knowledge used in nursing practice. Student nurses in Namibia have been taught Sociology of Development since 1987 at the diploma level. The content of sociology motivates the pivotal role of nurses as resource persons who enhance and promote the social upliftment of the people of Nam...

Implementation Of An Integrated Library Management System In Community Libraries: A Case Study Of Windhoek Public Library

Abstract Library automation plays a pivotal role in the growth and development of modern-day public libraries. The purpose of this study “Implementation of an Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) in Community Libraries: A Case Study of Windhoek Public Library” was to establish the reasons that led to the automation of the library and the selection of a proprietary system. The objectives of the study were to: establish reasons that led to library automation; determine why a propriet...

Age And Driving Experience As Predictors Of Driving Error Among Work-Related Drivers In Lagos Metropolis

Abstract The loss of lives from road traffic crashes is still occurring at an unacceptable level on Nigerian roads. Observers and commentators have in several cases implicated driver error as the major factor in traffic crashes. Furthermore, some demographic variables have been cited in traffic literature as predictors of driving error among drivers. However, this has not been empirically determined in Nigeria. Therefore this study examines age and driving experience of drivers as predictors...

Towards The Successful Implementation Of Intervention Strategies In Three Namibian State Hospitals: A Deterministic Framework

ABSTRACT Healthcare reform is a difficult policy issue that involves complex trade-offs between policy goals, such as ensuring access to high-quality healthcare and keeping public spending at fiscally affordable levels. Namibia, like most emerging economies faces challenges in expanding public healthcare coverage without undermining its fiscal sustainability. Yet, in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, developed countries had to undertake fiscal consolidation, which has seen a decli...

Employee Satisfaction And Performance: A Case Study Of Woermann Brock Supermarkets, Windhoek, Namibia

ABSTRACT The study was meant to assess the satisfaction and performance of employees in five Woermann Brock retail shops; namely Ombili supermarket, hyper supermarket, Eros supermarket, Klein Windhoek supermarket and lastly Olympia supermarket. The major problem facing its management was that some employees did not work together as a team (Head of HR department, Head Office Khomasdal). One of the three objectives were to define employee satisfaction, measure it, and examine how it could affec...

Regional Integration In The Southern African Development Community (Sadc): A Case Study Of Namibia’s Cross Border Migration Issues In Oshikango

Abstract The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate issues of cross-border migration and their effects on the project of SADC regional integration. The principal theoretical grounding comes from theories on migration, inclusive of their gender perspectives. Inclusive in this framework were perspectives of regionalism and its subsets of regionalisation, regional cooperation, regional integration and regional awareness/identity. The dissertation also examined competing theoretic...

Promoting Free And Fair Elections In Ghana-A Comparative Study Of The Media In The 2008 And 2016 Elections.

ABSTRACT The conduct of periodic free and fair elections is gradually becoming the norm rather than the exception in most developing parts of the world including Africa and Ghana. Ghana’s successful conduct of seven multiparty democratic elections resulting in three alternations of power has surpassed the two-turn over test espoused by Huntington. This has also recognised the country as a democratic torchbearer on the continent. In all these elections, the role of the media has been very p...

Parliament And Public Policy Making Under Ghana's Fourth Republic, 1993·2008

The role of Parliament in the policy making in Ghana has been found to be limited as the institution has suffered from the unstable political environment within which it operated especially from independence in 1957 to 1992. The lack of consistency and continuity of democratic governance undermined Parliament's ability to be properly institutionalized and benefit from path dependency.

Factors Influencing Customer Perceptions On Adoption Of Internet Banking In Namibia

ABSTRACT Internet banking is receiving greater attention as one of the most important and popular delivery channel for banking services in the cyber age, and it has remarkably developed in the light of the advances made in the information and communication technologies over the last three decades. This study analyses the factors influencing customer perceptions on adoption of Internet banking in Namibia by focusing on the selected demographic attributes such as gender, age, qualification and ...

An Evaluation Of The Audit Committees In Four Selected Government Ministries In Namibia

Abstract This study evaluated audit committees in the government ministries in Namibia by assessing their composition, function and regulations governing them. The study used the qualitative method. A purposive sampling method was used as the researcher selected ministries with audit committees. Thematic and content analysis was used in this study. The researcher used primary and secondary data. On primary data, interviews were conducted and recorded with a voice recorder. Secondary data were...

An Exploration Of How Treatment Interruption And Default Affects Tuberculosis (Tb) Patients In Oshakati District, Oshana Region, Namibia

ABSTRACT The main aim of the study was to explore and study, in order to understand the lived experience of TB patients whose treatment was interrupted and those who default the TB treatment. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium. The research project explored the treatment interruption and default among the TB patients in Oshakati District, Oshana Region in Namibia. A person can become infected with tuberculosis bacteria when he/she inhales pa...


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