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  • Uncertainty of function? Dickens, society and the law 
    Stern, Pamela Anne (2018-07)
    The themes of uncertainty, muddle and imprisonment, which are inextricably linked, permeate Charles Dickens’s novels. In his ‘early’ first five novels, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity ...
  • Knowledge sharing in Nkangala district municipality 
    Makhanya, Lungile (2018-11)
    The purpose of the study was to investigate knowledge practices in Nkangala District Municipality (NDM), situated in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The objective of the study was to discover NDM managers’ level of ...
  • Foreign aid complementarities and inclusive human development in Africa 
    Asongu, Simplice A (2019-04)
    This study complements existing literature by assessing how various types of foreign aid complement each other in boosting inclusive human development in Africa. (a) When ‘aid to social infrastructure’ is moderated with ...
  • Taxation,foreign aid and political governance in Africa 
    Asongu, Simplice A (2019-04)
    This study examines the hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on political governance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments and 53 African countries for the period ...
  • The academic performance of urban and rural secondary school learners in south western Nigeria 
    Adeyeye, Gbenga Michael (2017-09)
    This research examined the reasons for the differences in the academic performance of school learners, and makes reference to economic, social and cultural capital theory in explaining educational imbalances in society. Many ...

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