The Partnership Framework agreement between the United States Government and the Government of Nigeria in 2010 commits Nigeria to provide at least 50% of its HIV/AIDS funding by 2015. This study is aimed at identifying possible policy directions that the National Agency for the …
The growth in multinational corporations looking to expand and invest in foreign countries, particularly in the emerging markets such as Africa, has grown tremendously. "Africa is already the world's second fastest growing economy after expanding 5% a year in the past two years,…
This thesis explored the management of change, from a British model of Design and Technology (D&T) curriculum to the Botswana model intended for senior secondary schools. There is little research on the management of change in D&T education especially at senior secondary school …
In 1992, the Government of Botswana appointed a National Commission to review the education system and advise how it could promote human resource development to address the country’s socio-economic challenges. The Commission identified the need to diversify the labour market and…
Several studies have concluded that market volatility, integration, and volatility transmission have recently increased. Most recent studies found equity markets to be interlinked. The cause for this increase is attributed to advanced communication system and information technol…
This dissertation asks how Pan-Africanism sustains itself as a nationalism despite the evident, unorthodox temporal and spatial gaps between the individuals, populations and events it claims for its own. In answering this question, I challenge the inadvertently anti-democratic t…
This study analyzed changes in livelihoods before and after tourism development at Khwai, Mababe and Sankoyo villages in the Okavango Delta. Specifically, it analyzed how people interacted with species like giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis ), sable antelope (Hippotragus niger ) a…
The issue of the resource curse has been central to the academic debate since the 1990s. In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of the importance of this topic because of the discoveries of oil, natural gas, and other point source resources in several developing countri…
This dissertation examines the factors that are associated with the variation in the level of democracy in Africa. More specifically, I hypothesize that the dynamic of democratization in Africa is mainly influenced by three major factors: political leadership, the Cold War/the e…
In looking at factors associated with development and democracy, comparative political economy researchers have tended to examine the success stories of East Asia and Latin America. However, theories about transitions to democracy and state-led development in bureaucratic-author…