"The public debt/GDP ratio in several countries showed the largest ever peacetime increase during the last 20 years of the 20th century, thereby causing widespread fiscal unsustainability. Towards the latter half of the 1990s, several governments initiated steps to reverse this trend, however, they frequently found that their policies were not always successful. This book examines why. Philippe Burger uses and develops the "general balan ..."
"Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa. This growth has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal settlements, by pressure to provide basic services and by institutional pressures in local government to support mining. Fragile municipal finance, changing social attributes, the pressures of shift-work on mineworkers, the impact on the physical environment and perceived new inequalities between mine ..."
"Geared to upper-level college students or MBA candidates, this economics textbook uses examples from Africa to explain why the rate of economic growth is higher in some countries than in others, why the inflation rate varies from year to year, why unemployment rates rise and fall, why the Zimbabwean dollar is weak compared to strong currencies such as Botswana’s, and why imports of goods and services sometimes increase quite suddenly. T ..."
"Worker agency in colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid gold mining workplace
regimes. Review of African Political Economy, 39(132), pp. 279–294. PwC (
PricewaterhouseCoopers), 2014. SA Mine: Highlighting Trends in the South
African Mining Industry (6th edition). November www.pwc.co.za/en/assets/pdf/sa-
mine-2014-6th-edition-21-nov.pdf (accessed 3 May 2016). RSA (Republic of
South Africa), 1996. Mine Health and Safety Act (No. 29 of ..."
"Charl Jooste, Mr. Alfredo Cuevas, Ian C. Stuart, Philippe Burger. test might have
difficulty rejecting the null hypothesis of a unit root, even though the series might
be stationary (Bohn 1998:955). The KPSS test (with its null hypothesis of
stationarity), might also have difficulty distinguishing between stationary and non-
stationary series when the behaviour of the series, even when stationary, is very
close to being non-stationa ..."
"The paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the circumstances under which providing support to new and existing projects is justified."
"This Volume XIV analyses the New Growth and Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Africa. Institutional issues and perspectives in designing new growth and poverty alleviation strategies are considered in various case studies (Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Botswana and Tanzania). Other studies deal with institutional problems of resource-rich countries after conflict (Sudan), and with the institutions to enhance environmental protection parallel ..."
Religions in Play Games, Rituals, and Virtual Worlds (Culturel Religionswissenschaftliche Forschugen / Recherches en sciences dds religions) by Maya Burger, Philippe Bornet Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Tvz - Theologischer Verlag Z|Rich ISBN-13: 978-3-290-22010-5, ISBN: 3-290-22010-9
"Often dismissed as "not serious," the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turner, Staal, etc.). What can be retained of those theories for the contemporary study of religions? Can a study of "play" or "game" bring new perspectives for the study of religions? The book deals with the history of games and their relation to religions, the links between divinati ..."
"The itineraries studied here are those of Frieda Hauswirth, who searched for ways to contribute to the Indian freedom struggle; of Eva Lombard and Elisabeth Petitpierre, who went to India in order to practice medicine and save souls; of ..."