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Browsing 2010 - 2019 by Issue Date
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(Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2013)Understanding the social and cultural context in which concurrent sexual partnerships exist is important, given recent interventions to reduce their prevalence. This qualitative study seeks to improve the understanding of ...
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(Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2013)Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have shown that medical male circumcision (MC) substantially reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission.1 Driven by this evidence base, a growing number of countries have adopted ...
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(Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2013)INTRODUCTION: Article 6 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control commits Parties to use tax and price policies to reduce tobacco use, whereas Article 15 commits Parties to implement measures to eliminate the illicit ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2013)Wage subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment. After a decade of deliberation, the South African Government recently announced the introduction of a wage subsidy scheme. Given ...
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(Sexual Health, 2013)BACKGROUND: The current debate about the role of concurrent sexual partnerships in the spread of HIV is influenced by limited or weak empirical data on concurrency. There is still uncertainty about the most basic statistics ...
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(Natural Resource Modelling, 2013)Presently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving ...
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(Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 2013)This paper considers the ex post accuracy of two published sets of macroeconomic forecasts: the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU's) Country Report and the "Economist of the Year" consensus forecast, sponsored by Media ...
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(The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2013)Until recently, a long-standing, impressively large, and growing literature on the effects of military expenditure on economic growth appeared to have failed to result in a scholarly consensus. But the availability of 20 ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2013)
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(Studies in Family Planning, 2013)This study examines the influence of exposure to older within-grade peers on sexual behavior among students in urban South Africa. Data are drawn from the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey of young people conducted ...
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(Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013)We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to study the effect of selective attrition on the estimated earnings assimilation of immigrants to Canada. Contrary to findings in the existing international ...
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(Review of Income and Wealth, 2013)We show that body mass increases with economic resources among most Southern Africans, although not all. Among Black South Africans the relationship is non-decreasing over virtually the entire range of incomes/wealth. ...
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(Journal of Gambling Studies, 2013)We investigate the question whether problem gambling (PG) in a recent South African sample, as measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), is dimensional or categorical. We use two taxometric procedures, Mean ...
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(Journal of African Economies, 2013)This paper investigates the changes that occurred in black South African women's labour force participation (LFP) over the 1995–2004 post-Apartheid period. Using regression analysis of individual cross-section data for ...
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(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2013)This article reports on a study that used statistical analysis to estimate the impact of the first-year academic development (AD) courses offered by three diverse AD programmes (in the commerce, engineering and science ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2014)This paper exploits the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to describe the socio-economic profile of mortality and to assess whether self-rated health status is predictive of mortality between ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2014)We use longitudinal data from the National Income Dynamics Study to document the extent of recent short-term residential and household compositional change in South Africa. We analyse the demographic correlates of these ...
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(Regards Croisés sur l'Economie, 2014)Après avoir dressé une typologie de la corruption, cet article en analyse les implications pour les dépenses publiques et la croissance. Il montre également comment l’environnement économique, institutionnel et politique ...
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(Tobacco Control, 2014)Background The tobacco industry claims that illicit cigarette trade in South Africa is high and rising. This is often used as an argument not to increase the tobacco excise tax or to regulate tobacco products. Objectives ...
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(Tobacco Control, 2014)The tobacco industry claims that illicit trade in cigarettes has increased sharply since the 1990s and that government has lost substantial tax revenue. Our studies objectives were: (1) To determine whether cigarette excise ...
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