Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa doc

... service delivery, the ideology and practice of cost recovery became more dominant in a number of ways. First, there is the question of how cost recovery influenced the then-Department of Constitutional ... dominates official service delivery discourse in South Africa today, the apartheid state saw its role as one of providing and subsidising the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... logarithm of the market value of equity in millions of U.S. dollars at the beginning of year t; Q it = the market value of equity divided by the book value of total assets at the beginning of year ... A, which in turn owns 32% of the stock in Firm B. In the most modest scenario, we note that the entrepreneur controls 25% of Firm B the weakest li...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... examples of the changes found in all the fire affected provinces of the island: logging in the peneplains and peat forests, development of large industrial forest plantations, and changes in smallholder ... of the harvest depending on the price of rubber, the yield of the trees, and the prevailing opportunity cost of labour. 15 Changes star...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... offering improved rates of return. This could be done either by forcing a step exchange rate depreciation (and thereby generating the expectation of a strengthening of the rand) or by raising ... buying inflows to reduce the NOFP. Nonetheless, in certain cases involving large one-off inflows of FDI, the SARB may have sufficient prior information to make an assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:11

... oper ating costs, the costs of holding capital and liquidity costs. Nonetheless, the estimate does inform our understanding in a number of ways. First, it suggests that banks’ cost of funds are significantly ... behaviour of interest rates in their dataset. For instance, Sander and Kleimeier (2004) and and De Graeve et al. (2007) select the threshold that minimises t...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... on institutional strengthening and capacity building in 40 provinces with abundant forests and support pilot implementation of all the REDD activities + in 6 provinces as Bac Kan, Ca Mau, Binh ... the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the land allocation under Decree 99. The goal of phase II...

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:06

... to the situation in the United Kingdom having mainly been derived from American data. Nevertheless it is likely that offering prophylaxis is cost saving despite the cost of administration of ... HIV testing prior to randomisation in the trial, the provision of antiretroviral therapy to those who develop HIV during the course of the study and the provision...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... division (excluding his own team) in y ear t whic h controls for the quality of the pitching and batting in the team’s division in the sam e year , the team manager ’s lifetime winning percentage ... robust to the inclusion or exclusion of the team ’s batting performance. Regarding the other con trol variables, they all have the expected signs and are generally...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... and Nagaland had a value of three and more indicating higher inequality in the state of health care. All other states had a value between two and three indicating the degree of inequality in ... variable in the construction of the wealth index for rural India. Third, we have equated the cutoff point of the poor to the Planning Commission, Government of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... from the 1860s through the 1880s. The history of the emergence of gynecology occurred in the context of the growth of medical institutions and increasing specialization in scientific disciplines ... discoveries, including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to prevent internal infections. These innova...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20