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Drawing insights from firm-level survey, this paper addresses three broad issues relating to the role of learning and knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of learning. While knowledge externalities tend to benefit larger firms, small enterprises with little absorptive capacity...
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Drawing insights from firm-level survey, this paper addresses three broad issues relating to the role of learning and knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of learning. While knowledge externalities tend to benefit larger firms, small enterprises with little absorptive capacity...
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Prepared under the supervision of Professor E.V.O. Dankwa at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon
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I gratefully acknowledge the support of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The paper also draws from a Strategic Assessment of Equity and Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change undertaken by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
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Large parts of tropical and subtropical Africa are characterized by a limited natural potential (ACHENBACH 1994). Among the physical causes the crucial limiting factor is deficient freshwater availability due to intense rainfall variability at various time scales (NICHOLSON 1993; SPITTLER 1994; HERBERS 1999). The most prominent feature in recent African climate was the severe drought period between the 1960s and the late 1980s (NICHOLSON 2001; LE BARBE et al. 2002), which implied enormous...
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Abstract This article reports on factors influencing the participation of undergraduate students from sub-Saharan Africa in higher education in the United States of America (US). A literature study investigated aspects of undergraduate study in the US as applied to international students. The policy of the US government and of individual institutions of higher education toward the enrolment of international students, its benefits and procedures for application are outlined. Against this...
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The Australian overseas Aid Agency (AusAID), in the form of an AusAID Scholarship Award. The ACT branch of the Geological Society for funding my participation at the 16th Australian Geological Convention held in Adelaide in July 2002. The Department of Mining for paying for air tickets and allowance for my family.
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How successful has South Africa been in overcoming injustice in education and the larger social injustices that result from it? And how shall we judge i?½ by assessing justice in outcomes or justice in procedures or both? In this article we propose criteria for judging accomplishments in social justice and evaluate some facets of South Africai?½s progress towards achieving an ambitious agenda for social justice in and through education in the first decade of democracy. We conclude that...
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How successful has South Africa been in overcoming injustice in education and the larger social injustices that result from it? And how shall we judge – by assessing justice in outcomes or justice in procedures or both? In this article we propose criteria for judging accomplishments in social justice and evaluate some facets of South Africa’s progress towards achieving an ambitious agenda for social justice in and through education in the first decade of democracy. We conclude that social...
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Objective To sum up the experience of long-distance aeromedical transport and analyze various factors affecting it. Methods Aeromedical transport practice of 5 Chinese wounded personnel carried out after earthquake in 2003 May in Algeria was reviewed,and various factors affecting aeromedical transport,including planning of transport,installing of medical personnel and equipments,monitoring of the wounded in the air and psychotherapy were discussed. Results The air transport mission was...