ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the Namibian Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) in recovering loans. The Namibia Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) is a scheme designed to replace the Public Service Bursary The scheme, whose purpose was to sponsor students so that they would be bonded to work solely in the Civil Service. Soon after Independence, the demand for recruits in the Civil Service was significantly decreased, following the integr...
ABSTRACT Performance coaching (PC) is a tool that management can use in addressing staff performance. It was first employed in the field of sports, work safety, military, health and education. Nowadays, performance coaching is applied in all fields of a profession as an attempt to rectify employee’s performances. Performance appraisal is a measure through which managers can monitor and evaluate employee’s performance which was suspended in the Public Service of Namibia in 1997, left it w...
Abstract Sovereign Debt Management has become an important practice in many developing countries and emerging market economies. The debt crisis in 1982 and the recent European debt crisis has triggered the interest of many governments in developing countries to develop capacity in Sovereign Debt Management. Many developing countries had failed to honour their debt obligations and had applied for debt relief from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Namibia had no exception that it...
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of the increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children is not overlooked by Namibia. In fact, the situation is aggravated by the deaths of young adults as a result of the Human Immuno Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Subsequently, a huge number of children are left behind and forced to provide for themselves. Families have torn apart as parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and relatives die. Children are left alone and disadvantaged. T...
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that nightmares occur with regularity in the general population, most previous research has focused on clinical samples, and the genesis of idiopathic nightmares remains poorly understood. The aim of the present research was therefore to investigate the neuropsychological mechanisms of idiopathic bad dream and nightmare generation, with a particular focus on the limbic system. High versus low levels of limbic activation and its effect on the frequency of dream, bad d...
ABSTRACT The Swaziland Government is experiencing employee litigation resulting in financial and staff time costs. The study found that several underlying factors contribute to labour litigation against the Swaziland Government, including the poor qualifications of managers. The Swaziland Government is a public organisation with an objective of providing public goods and services, of which service delivery is the most crucial indicator for the successful implementation of public policy. The ...
ABSTRACT Research has consistently shown the importance of the housing sector on the economy, the long-term social and financial benefits and failure of the housing market to provide an adequate supply of well-located affordable housing. Despite various initiatives by the Government and non-governmental organizations, the housing sector is faced with a number of strategic challenges, which provide the basis for policy and strategy decisions by exposing the existing gaps in the housing indust...
ABSTRACT This thesis uses data from Kenya to contribute to the literature on tobacco and alcohol control policies in low and middle-income countries. The thesis uses the two most recent household and budget surveys (2005/6 and 2015/16), to examine some of the effects of the tobacco and alcohol control policies that were implemented in Kenya between 2005 and 2015. Chapter 2 considers the impact of consumption and taxation of tobacco and alcohol on household spending patterns. An instrumental v...
ABSTRACT Street vending is a common practice the world over. In cities the streets are swamped with vendors selling various wares and Zimbabwe is no exception. However, in recent years the proliferation of street vending in Zimbabwe, particularly in Harare Central Business District (CBD) has been an eyesore and several questions have been raised as to what is really behind such proliferation and what tactics are these vendors employing to remain in the streets despite efforts by the council ...
ABSTRACT Over the years, Namibia has made efforts to promote the agriculture sector in its National Development Plans. The current five-year plan still identifies the agriculture sector with the potential to boost economic growth to address challenges of food security, unemployment and poverty reduction. However, despite these efforts, the sector’s contribution to GDP remains minimal. Even though, economic theory supports the view that agriculture is a pre-requisite to stimulate growth ...
ABSTRACT This study is a critical review of the implementation of the Namibian rationalisation policies during the period 1993 - 2004. The main objective of this study was to analyse the rationalisation policies and to assess the extent to which they had an impact on the structure, shape, (and to a lesser degree) the effectiveness of the civil service. It examined the gaps and discrepancies between policy intentions, the implementation process and eventual outcomes, in terms of the siz...
ABSTRACT Local Authorities are closest to people in terms of service provision. The Local Authority Act of Namibia assigns expenditure responsibilities as well as fiscal instruments to raise revenue to fund these expenditure responsibilities. The research looked at how this assigned fiscal instruments were performing viaa-vis the expenditure responsibilities. It also assessed their suitability and efficiencies for the purpose they are intended for. Lastly the research explored ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the causal relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Namibia. It used annual secondary time series data covering the period between 1980 and 2016 for the following variables: economic growth, foreign direct investment and manufacturing. The study employed Vector Error Correction (VECM) Model to analyse the data. The time series properties of the data were analysed using Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) unit ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) on the organisational performance of Namibian food processors. Although literature posits that there is a positive relationship between the greater adoption of SHRM practices and organizational performance, there is no evidence to suggest that Namibian food adopt these practices. It is however reported that the Namibian manufacturing industry, particularly the fish and food pr...
ABSTRACT The importance of effective working capital management in enhancing an organisation’s profitability cannot be overemphasized. In Namibia, the profitability of several State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) has constantly been the cause of taxpayers’ concern for the past few years as these SOEs have incessantly depended on Government bailouts. While a number of scholars have concentrated their research on understanding the relationship between working capital management (WCM) and an orga...