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Perceptions of stakeholders involved in a public-private partnership arrangement: A case study of solid waste management in the City of Windhoek, Namibia.
No full textPublic-Private Partnerships have become an important instrument in sub-national government’s development assistance because; it adds a new variant to cooperation between governments and the economy of their countries. It concerns the establishment of purposeful joint business ventures at programme level, which aims at providing a more efficient and effective service delivery. Furthermore, it aims to ensure that the approach being use is pro poor. In this regard the capital city of Namibia, the City of Windhoek, has embarked on such a public private partnership arrangement to enhance the living conditions of the residents within the city. In this regard the ward contractor project was launched and implemented. The main purpose of the project is to create a clean and healthy environment, to create an entrepreneurial spirit amongst small scale independent providers and to ensure that the most vulnerable groups within the Namibian society, especially women, benefit from this arrangement.
The purpose of the research project study was to determine the perceptions of the stakeholders involved in the solid waste management public-private partnership arrangement in the City of Windhoek to ensure that the specific project lives up to its goals and objectives. Through the research conducted, knowledge has been generated that will be of benefit to decision makers, and scholars interested in public-private partnership arrangements within the Namibian, regional and global context. The article concludes by looking at the way forward for future improvement of the project
Statement by His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of the Republic of Namibia, on the occasion of the 15th Graduation Ceremony of the NUST, 17 April 2010, Windhoek.
No full textGraduation Ceremony of the NUST (15th : 2010 Apr. 17 : Windhoek, Namibia)Theme for 2010: Re-thinking competitiveness for socio-economic development
Dubious trade and corporate connections: Moral imperative versus academic silence.
No full textPaper presented at a conference.Advocacy against the dark side of trade comes to us via investigative journalism by
the mainstream news media, rather than the business media. Formal research on these dubious trades is lacking and what little is done is primarily by non-government
organisations {NGOs) and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), not academic
institutions. Within academia, research on the phenomenon is published primarily by
researchers from the humanities and social sciences, even the physical sciences, rather than those in business and management disciplines, with the possible exception of economists who have done some amoral research on the arms trade. Utilising limited secondary data on the extent of the trade and its consequences, this paper aims to make the case for why corporations cannot ignore such matters of global socio-economic justice
Franchising culture for Kazakhstan television: Producers' ambivalence and audiences' indifference.
No full textAfter decades of state-owned broadcasting as part of the Soviet Union, the arrival of commercial television in Kazakhstan meant expanded entertainment programming for the masses. Adaptation of program formats and genre from abroad provided a quick-and-dirty solution to increased channels and broadcast hours, but little has been written about the
challenges to program producers or about viewer opinion. Despite Kazakhstan producers and consumers being initially curious and toleranttowards the new cultural offerings, I found neither seemed fully receptive to
the commercialization of television programming but somewhat resigned to
the imperative. Yet this response might only last while there is an older generation that remembers Soviet days and holds to some of its cultural values. I argue that creation and reception of such commercial television
programs may provide yet another site of cultural contestation in the post-Soviet age between a globalized Western, regional Russified, and a nationalistic Kazakhstan one. Thus my paper explores the hybridization of quasi-national culture in search of audiences. I conclude from my research that Kazakhstan’s commercial television needs to reserve space for the
authentic expression of the multi-cultural nature of this society
Regional trade agreements and its impact on trade flows for South African agricultural products.
No full textThe aim of this study was to measure the impact of liberalisation on the South African agricultural
economy, particularly the impact on trade flow of the exchange rate, trade liberalisation and distance of trading partners using the gravity model. The model found that all variables were significant at one percent and carried the expected sign. Only the EU dummy variable had an inverse relationship, implying that the EU trade agreement has a negative impact on the export capacity of the South African
farmers. This result has important policy implications for the South African agricultural sector in selecting and strengthens the regional block agreement. Given the importance of distance to markets,
South Africa should emphasise efforts to reduce transaction costs. It is also important to protect and advocate productivity growth within the era of globalisation challenges Secondly, from an export promotion standpoint, distance in the model result showed that per capita income in importing countries is elastic and significant when it comes to determining exports. Therefore, it is important for
South Africa to revise all the existing trade links and extend further to countries or regions with a high per capita income in order to realise export potential
Speech by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, on the occasion of the Official Opening of Jo Rogge's Art Exhibitions at Omba, Wednesday 7 July 2010, Windhoek.
No full textOfficial Opening of Jo Rogge's Art Exhibition (2010 July 7 : Windhoek, Namibia
Speech by Mr. Tom Alweendo, DiVice Chancellor-General of the National Planning Commission, at the 15th Graduation Ceremony of the NUST, 17 April 2010, Windhoek.
No full textGraduation Ceremony of the NUST (15th : 2010 Apr. 17 : Windhoek, Namibia)Theme for 2010: Re-thinking competitiveness for socio-economic development
Keynote address by Hon. Joel Kaapanda, Minister of Information and Communication Technology, at the official opening of the NUST's 14th Annual HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign, NUST, Windhoek, 06 May 2010.
No full textAnnual HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign of the NUST (14th : 2010 May 6 : Windhoek, Namibia
Vietnam: At the frontier.
No full textRealistic novels and memoirs of the Vietnam War tell a common tale in which the youthful protagonist leaves behind the society of his immediate father to connect with the cultural father by entering the frontier of Vietnam. There he suffers the traumatic shock of finding that he has entered a crazily inverted landscape of American myth frustrating all his expectations. The youthful protagonist leaving his family to enter the frontier in Vietnam is depicted clearly in many Vietnam novels and films. One of the clearest examples here is Ron Kovic’s novel Born on the Fourth of July. In the film young Ron watches an Independence Day rally in his hometown in awe. All the veterans of previous wars America has been involved in, including the last war in Korea, march down the street. Ron grows up learning to be competitive and an “upright” American. His mother cheers for him to do well in wrestling and she scolds him severely for looking at pornography. We are given the picture of a sound, yet strict upbringing. His father tries to dissuade him from going to war in Vietnam. In the end he goes, full of patriotism; a true son of America. Once in Vietnam he is exposed to the brutality and chaos of war, but his greatest fight is when he returns home wounded. He struggles to adapt to a society which is against the war and is rejecting its war heroes. He suffers the trauma of rejection and adaptation in a “hostile” environment. In the end he joins the anti-war lobbyists. This aspect of being rejected by one's own society is seen in the poem Private Jack Smith, U.S.M.C.[1
Speech by Harold Pupkewitz at the inauguration of the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business, on the occasion of his 95th birthday - 14 July 2010.
No full textInauguration of the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business (2010 July 14 : Windhoek, Namibia