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Microbiology SpectrumThe coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has highlighted the importance and challenges of the sample collection component of the diagnostic cycle. Although combined nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs (NOS) have historically been the gold standard of ...
Kwana Lechiile +15 more
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 The purpose of this paper is to estimate the dynamic impact of trade openness on economic growth in Botswana using the ARDL bounds testing approach. The study employs four different proxies for trade openness, which include trade-based measures and a ...
Malefa Rose Malefane
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study pursues a dual objective. First, it investigates the unconditional impact of anti‐globalization on structural transformation in Africa. Second, it explores how environmental degradation interacts with anti‐globalization to influence structural transformation. The analysis focuses on 52 African countries over the period 2005–2023. To
Simplice A. Asongu, Ekene ThankGod Emeka
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Women's Empowerment, Governance, and the Economics of Clean Cooking Transitions in Africa
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the global economy, particularly in developing nations, has persistently grappled with rising dependence on conventional energy resources, thus rendering the realization of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 7 (SDGs 5 and 7) an elusive aspiration for the international community.
Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi +2 more
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Transboundary COVID-19 response on health communication in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern AfricaA global COVID-19 pandemic caused untold community disruptions, a huge toll on lives and placed major burdens on the economies of developing countries. It spread worldwide within a short period of time before nations could mobilise evidence for the best ...
Mark Nyandoro +2 more
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Terms of Trade and Growth of Resource Economies: A Tale of Two Countries [PDF]
The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT), employing as case studies the following two African countries: Botswana and Nigeria. Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the
Augustin Kwasi Fosu
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the dynamic relationship between Green Finance (proxied by green Official Development Assistance) and the expansion of Renewable Energies on biodiversity conservation across 48 African countries over the period 2000–2017.
Mounkaila Gourouza Nana Hadiza +1 more
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Interaction between HIV Awareness, Knowledge, Safe Sex Practice and HIV Incidence: Evidence from Botswana [PDF]
This paper makes methodological and empirical contributions to the study of HIV awareness, knowledge, incidence and safe sex practice in the context of Botswana, one of the most HIV prone countries in the world.
Kompal Sinha, Ranjan Ray
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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Utilising tourism potential in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS through poverty alleviation in rural areas of Botswana [PDF]
Tourism is an important economic activity in Botswana and it has the potential to alleviate poverty in the country. Many people living in rural areas of Botswana including areas in which tourism activities are taking place live in poverty.
Lisbon Simeon Ketshabile
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