Annual and diurnal African biomass burning temporal dynamics G. Roberts, M. J. Wooster, and E. Lagoudakis King’s College London, Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Research Group, Department of Geography, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK Received: 20 June 2008 – Accepted: 5 August 2008 – Published: 9 September 2008 Correspondence to: G. Roberts ([email protected]) Published by Copernicu...

The past 20 years have seen the development of bait technologies that enable livestock keepers to control tsetse flies and, hence, African trypanosomiasis. The techniques have, however, often been applied on too small a scale, without due regard to the realities of tsetse population dynamics. The consequent lack of progress has led to calls for a return to large-scale operations. Analysis of su...

1. Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2. South African Rugby Union (SARU), SARU House, 163 Uys Krige Road, Plattekloof, Cape Town, South Africa 3. Department of Public & Occupational Health and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Ams...

In this paper we use data from 17 African nations in order to investigate the hypothesis that monetary union – represented in this case by the CFA Franc Zone – augments the extent of macroeconomic integration. The paper covers a number of dimensions of integration including the volume of bilateral trade, real exchange rate volatility and the magnitude of cross-country business cycle correlation.

Labor unions are an important economic and political force in South Africa. Inequality in wage rates is among the largest in the world in South Africa, with African and white workers receiving wages that differ by a factor of five. The complex role of unions in closing and creating this wage gap is assessed in this paper. Union membership among Africa male workers is shown to be associated in 1...

It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using the Feldstein–Horioka (FH) approach, none of them to the best of our knowledge have explicitly examined capital mobility changes across regional economic groupings in Africa, an...