http://ir.polytechnic.edu.na:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Tue, 28 May 2013 18:40:02 GMT 2013-05-28T18:40:02Z http://hdl.handle.net/10628/334 Title: Book review: Undisciplined heart by Jane Katjjavivi. Authors: Mlambo, Nelson; Pasi, Juliet Abstract: This article reviews Jane Katjavivi's autobiography, Undisciplined Heart, published in 2010. Description: Book review Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10628/334 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10628/333 Title: Financial sector development and economic growth nexus in South Africa. Authors: Sunde, Tafirenyika Abstract: The study investigated the nexus between financial sector development and economic growth in South Africa using co-integration and error correction modelling and; the Granger causality tests. The results of the study show that economic growth is explained by the financial sector variables and control variables such as inflation, exchange rate, and real interest rates. The Granger causality test results show that there is generally a bidirectional relationship between economic growth and financial sector development which implies that if the economy grows the financial services sector also grows and vice versa. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10628/333 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10628/332 Title: Emerging trends of higher education in developing countries. Authors: Ravinder, Rena Abstract: Quality in Higher Education has become a primary agenda of the countries worldwide. In the context marked by expansion of higher education and globalization of economic activities, education has become a national concern in developing countries with an international dimension. To cope with this changing context, developing countries have been pressurized to ensure and assure quality of higher education at a nationally comparable and internationally acceptable standard. It is generally acknowledged that globalization has created tremendous impacts on higher education in this first decade of twenty-first century. Externally, there have been unprecedented changes both at global and national context. The benefits of globalisation accrue to the countries with highly skilled human capital and it is a curse for the developing countries in frica, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean without such specialised human capital. This paper delves the recent trends of higher education in developing countries. It addresses the various challenges of higher education in the developing countries in the context of 21st century. Besides, the paper examines the response of higher education to globalization in developing countries and discusses the major challenges that the globalization brought to higher education. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10628/332 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10628/331 Title: Leveraging the competitiveness of Eritrean agriculture: A case study. Authors: Ravinder, Rena Abstract: Agriculture is the backbone of Eritrean economy. It provides employment to over 70 percent of the working population in the country. In good years the country produces only about 60 per cent of its total food needs and in poor years, it produces no more than 25 per cent. Annual crop production mainly depends on rainfall that is variable and unevenly distributed from year to year. Agriculturalists, economists and experts from different fields of studies have raised alarm on food crisis. This paper delves the Eritrean agricultural production, land and people. It throws a light on the Elabered Estate,a reputed agricultural estate since the Italian period. It examines the strategies and methods used by the Estate to increase agricultural yields. It discusses varieties of grains with greater resistance to disease and pests, together with the use of improved farm management techniques and chemical inputs, such as improved pesticides and fertilizers. The paper highlights the success story of the Estate being an important player or a model in Eritrean agriculture sector. The paper deals with the concerted efforts made by the Estate to go with the Global Competition. It also highlights some of the challenges of Eritrean agriculture sector and provides implications. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10628/331 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z