February 2007

Heterogeneity among Zimbabwe’s rural micro-enterprises and the determinants of their inclination to agro-dealership

  Rural micro-enterprises play a pivotal role in developing country agriculture as the major sources of inputs and ready markets for agricultural produce. This makes an understanding of their diversity and dynamism vital to issues of sustainable food security and poverty alleviation. This paper uses cluster analysis and a logit regression model to establish the factors underlying the heterogeneity of...

Author(s): Richard Foti, Nyararai Mlambo, Violet Muringai, Zira Mavunganidze and Cletos Mapiye

February 2007

Crime and HIV/AIDS in the Western Cape: business support organizations and business owners’ perceptions

  Economic growth will be severely curtailed if crime and HIV/AIDS is not effectively dealt with. Despite the fact that the business support organizations and the SMME owners are dissatisfied with the crime situation, the government reports that it is showing a decreasing trend. The research shows that 92% of the respondents are of the opinion that crime negatively affects small and medium enterprises and these...

Author(s): Eslyn Isaacs and Chris Friedrich