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Healthcare Development, Relaxed Natural Selection, and COVID‐19 Infection Rates: An Evolutionary Population‐Level Analysis

Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Evolutionary principles offer critical insights into pandemic dynamics but have been largely overlooked in contemporary responses to COVID‐19. Relaxed natural selection, increased global mobility, and lifestyle mismatches have contributed to human vulnerability to infectious diseases in modern societies.
Wenpeng You, Brendon Coventry, Arthur Saniotis, Francesco Maria Galassi, Renata Henneberg, Maciej Henneberg   +5 more
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Divided Diasporas: Southern Africans in Canada [PDF]

, 2013
The protracted economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe led directly to a major increase in mixed migration flows to South Africa. Migrants were drawn from every sector of society, all education and skill levels, equal numbers of both sexes, and all ...
Caesar, Mary, Chikanda, Abel, Crush, Jonathan, Eberhardt, Cassandra, Hill, Ashley, Pendleton, Wade, Ramachandran, Sujata   +6 more
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(Re)considering Discourses of Risk and Responsibility Through the Lens of Healthism: Interpreting the International Response to a Global Health Strategy for Noncommunicable Diseases

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Public health crises such as the global epidemic of so‐called ‘lifestyle diseases’ are often framed as the failure of individuals to make the right health‐related choices or to take responsibility for managing their bodies in ways that promote the health of present and future selves. Through his early writings on healthism, Robert Crawford was
Tim Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Policy Reforms in the Cereals Sector of the SADC Region: Implications on Food Security [PDF]

This study evaluates the welfare implications of tariff reforms in the cereals sector of the SADC region. Applying the global simulation model (GSIM), a multi-country partial equilibrium model, to the cereals industries of thirteen SADC countries, the ...
Mutambatsere, Emelly
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No. 25: Complex Movements, Confused Responses: Labour Migration in South Africa [PDF]

, 2011
The end of apartheid undermined the rationale for apartheid-era immigration. Immigration from Europe (which had been declining in the 1980s) dwindled to almost nothing as the new government dissociated itself from the racist immigration policies of the ...
Crush, Jonathan
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The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation

Conservation Letters, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT CITES has demonstrated a persistent trend of regulatory tightening over five decades, raising critical questions about both equity and effectiveness in global conservation governance. This study examines how structural power imbalances and dominant Northern narratives within the Convention have systematically marginalized pluralistic ...
Youmin Lian, Md. Ziaul Islam
wiley   +1 more source

Microeconomic consequences and macroeconomic causes of foreign direct investment in southern African economies [PDF]

The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new micro-data set of firms in thirteen Southern African
Lederman, Daniel, Mengistae, Taye, Xu, Lixin Colin   +2 more
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Is Macroeconomic Policy Convergence necessary for a Sustainable SADC Free Trade Area? [PDF]

, 2000
This policy brief is a shortened version of DPRU Working Paper 00/039, Macroeconomic policy and trade integration in Southern Africa, by Charles ...
Harvey, Charles
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Developing an Effective Regulatory Regime for E-Commerce in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Proposed Solutions

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The outbreak of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) in 2019 has accelerated digital transformations particularly in the area of e-commerce. The imposition of public health-related lockdowns limited physical movement and increased the demand and use of e-
Vongai Chimeri, Tapiwa Shumba
doaj   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue S1, Page S45-S54, February 2026.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source