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No full textThe Land, Livelihoods and Housing Programme aims at deepening and expanding the focus on these three key issues in Namibia. This thematic approach seeks to reflect the wide-ranging skills exiting at the FNRSS, and was developed to guide ILMI’s activities during the 2014-18 period. The programme is organised in four aspects: institutional, environmental, fiscal and spatial processes
The proposed new Urban and Regional Planning Bill: an appraisal.
No full textThe Bill aimed at overriding old ordinances that dated back to the 1950s and 60s. The main objective of the Bill is that of decentralisation, and has three main points: the establishment of "authorized planning authorities" (APA); the consolidation of Townships Board and the Namibia Planning Advisory Board (NAMPAB) into one Urban and Regional Planning Board; and long term spatial development frameworks by means of a structure plan at all levels: national, regional, and urban
Opening address by Hon. Dr. Becky R. K. Ndoze-Ojo, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, at the Official opening of the 20th NUST Cultural Festival on 10 August 2015, at 9h00, in front of EHaus, NUST, Windhoek.
No full textNUST Cultural Festival (20th: 2015 Aug. 10: Windhoek
Speech by Prof Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the NamUrban launch on 1 October 2015, at 11:00, at the residence of the Finnish Ambassador, Windhoek.
No full textNamUrban Project Launch (2015 October 1, Windhoek, Namibia
Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Informatics at the NUST
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Every organisation tries to operate in a dynamic environment; as a result, no organisation intends to stay the same. Thus the organisation’s survival depends on how fast and well they react and respond to change. The changes are expected to come from both business and technological perspectives. Change is implored and implemented through different approaches, such as Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Organisations adopt EA as a way to map and describe organisational structure, business activities, and how information and technologies can be used to support, enable and automate business processes. Enterprise architecture plays an important role in guiding organisations’ operations and implementation of new technologies in dynamic environments. However, with all the benefits that EA brings to organisations, they are still challenged by their operations.
The study employed the qualitative method as the research strategy. Qualitative method was selected primarily because of its explanatory nature. Also, it enables researchers to study phenomenon in their natural settings, which was critical in this research. The researcher avoids assumptions and expectations but rather study the environments as they are presented in order to understand them.
The study used a case study approach and semi-structured interviews for data collection. Activity Theory (AT) was applied during data analysis and it provided a third eye needed to understand the technical and non-technical factors that could impact the development and implementation of EA.
Based on the interpretation of the findings from the analysis of data, the Namibian government wide enterprise architecture framework was developed. The framework act as guidance in the selection, development, implementation and maintenance of information system and technologies in the Namibian Ministries computing environment
The effects of monetary policy on unemployment in Namibia
No full textThe main purpose of the article was to establish the effects of monetary policy on unemployment in Namibia. The article used the structural VAR methodology in a macroeconometric setting to achieve this. The results show that monetary policy affects unemployment in Namibia in the short run and in the long run, it is ineffective. These results differ from the results by Alexius & Holmlund (2007) and Jacobs et al. (2003) who found that monetary policy has a significant role to play in explaining unemployment in both the short run and the long run. This means that there is still need to investigate the other explanations of long run unemployment in Namibia such as the demand and supply related variables so that appropriate policies are propounded to address it effectively
Evaluation of the efficiency of Moringa products as natural adsorbents of heavy metals in contaminated wastewater
No full textSpeech by Prof Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST at the 20th Cultural Festival, 09h00, 10 August 2015, Windhoek.
No full textNUST Cultural Festival (20th: 2015 Aug. 10: Windhoek
No miracles here: Trade and economic progress.
No full textIndubitably, striving for greater economic growth that can lead to a general improvement in the well-being of the people constitutes one of the fundamental macroeconomic goals of all modern economies these days. In this study, the possibility of achieving economic growth through trade is investigated. The study employed the unit root test, co-integration test, pairwise Granger-causality test, and forecast error variance decomposition technique to assess the issue under focus by using Namibia as a case study. Further, the study employed quarterly macroeconomic time-series data for the period, 1992 to 2014. The VAR estimates indicate a long-run relationship among the variables investigated. Exports in particular were found to Granger cause economic growth. The forecast error variance decomposition result demonstrates that exports and foreign direct investment contributed more towards innovations in economic growth compared to exchange rate during the chosen time horizon. The study also found that consistently, economic growth itself accounted for a lion share of the innovations that occurred over the selected time horizon. The important message to policymakers in Namibia from the outcome of the study is that the promotion of exports should constitute a crucial part of a country’s macroeconomic policies in order to accelerate economic growth
Exploring co-integration and causality relationships between government expenditure and economic performance in Namibia.
No full textOne of the heated discussions among economists nowadays relates to the efficacy of government expenditure as a tool for stimulating growth in the national economy. This research paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating the possibility of a dynamic relationship between government expenditure and economic growth in Namibia through the use of the two-step Engle-Granger approach. Accordingly, the study examines interactions between total government expenditure and economic growth by also including health and education as potential predictors of economic growth. The annual time-series macroeconomic secondary data-set relied upon runs from the period 1990 to 2013. The dependent variable, that is, real gross domestic product serves as a proxy to economic growth; while total public expenditure, as well as, expenditures on education and health operated in the model as predictors of economic growth. First, the study found co-integration relationships among the variables used in the study. Second, a unidirectional causality relationship running from economic
growth to the health sector was observed. Further, the study found that government spending and expenditures on education and health are all weak predictors of economic growth. The lesson arising from this study would be that simply pumping a lot of financial resources into particular sectors of the economy is not a guarantee for
growth. Forthcoming studies should amongst others direct attention to the type of activities that public finance is mainly used for in the health and education sectors in respect of Namibia