Commentary: Proposed Termination of Pregnancy Bill in Malawi: Doctors use the best of what they have

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The effect of credit programme membership on food expenditure and child nutrition in rural Malawi : does female headship have a differential effect?

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-44).Although several country-level studies have investigated the impact of access to credit on various outcome variables, few of these studies have looked at the full effect of membership in a credit programme. This study was conducted on a Malawian dataset that was collected through a household rural finance survey. The study differs from other studies in that the operative explanatory variable is not monetary credit but credit programme membership

Does the South African Pension Funds Adjudicator perform an administrative or a judicial function?

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Reading the Bible through the eyes of women and the oppressed: in search for justice and liberation in Malawi

This thesis examines the importance, in the search for justice and liberation in Malawi, of reading the bible through the eyes of women and the oppressed. Serious questions have been raised in Malawian Church and Society concerning the inferiority and subordination of women and the oppressed, particularly the poor and marginalised groups and their role and place in the holy ministry. Since the establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Malawi nearly 130 years ago, women and the oppressed groups have been discriminated against in various ways. They have not taken an active share and responsibility in the whole community life of society, and have not participated fully and more widely in the various fields of the Church’s structures. The thesis critically challenges the patriarchal reading of the texts which oppresses and marginalises women, and seeks to bring respect and dignity to them by employing a historical critical reading that leads to a liberative reading. Since patriarchal reading of the texts does not bring justice and liberation to women, the thesis engages in a liberative reading that traces and restores women’s history in Mark. Our liberative reading claims that the Christian past is not just a male past where women participated only on the fringes or were not active at all, but it is as well a women’s own past. Hence, the readings of Mark 5:24-43 & 7:24-30 provide sufficient indicators for such a history of women as followers of Jesus and leading members of the early Christian communities. Thus our historical critical reading seeks to transform patriarchal reading of the texts to liberative readings that incorporate all people, men and women, upper and lower classes, different cultures and races, the powerful and the weak

Taking Human Rights Higher in the Fight Against Terrorism in South Africa

Article published in the Michigan State International Law Review

Assessing entrepreneurial career intentions of family and consumer sciences students in higher education: a model testing approach

The study explains college students\u27 entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions as they prepare for careers in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). It examined relationships between leadership behavior, entrepreneurial intensity, and attitudes as variables explaining and predicting entrepreneurial intentions of FCS students in early stages of their college education. The fundamental assumption was that how FCS students reach program of study and career decisions is inconclusive. A review of relevant theoretical perspectives of entrepreneurial intentions and antecedents guided the development of hypotheses for the study. Entrepreneurial intentions were hypothesized to be the function of FCS students\u27 perceptions of leadership behavior, entrepreneurial intensity, and attitude toward entrepreneurship;A Web-based survey was developed and administered to 233 FCS undergraduate students, enrolled in FCS apparel and textiles classes at three public universities in the Midwestern U.S. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis with LISREL 8.50 were employed to test the model;Results of this study confirm prior findings that attitudes predict intentions (Ajzen, 1987; Krueger et al., 2000; Shapero, 1982). This study substantiates that perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, and propensity to act explain a significant portion of entrepreneurial intentions for FCS students in the early stages of their university education. Findings indicate that entrepreneurial intensity and leadership behavior provide additional insight concerning why FCS students intend to study and pursue business ownership as a career path;This study represents an initial test of an entrepreneurial intentions model that includes entrepreneurial intensity and leadership behavior for FCS students. It provides a plausible representation of the entrepreneurial intentions theory as conceptualized and serves as the basis for final conclusions. Implications and future research ideas are suggested. Further testing of the theory is necessary for generalization of results beyond this study

An Assessment of the link between Performance Management and Appraisal System of the organisation in the period of 2008 and 2013: Case study of Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Malawi.

BCM-CFM is Non-Governmental Organisation that provides care to children with HIV/AIDs and their families. Baylor College of Medicine provides out-patient clinic services and outreach activities. It employs over 200 employees. In 2013, BCM-CFM conducted an Employee Satisfaction Survey (ESS) which was designed to evaluate the satisfaction levels of the employees against the performance management system that is in place. The survey revealed that employees were not satisfied with the appraisal system that is in place. The respondents strongly disagreed to the statement that their compensation matches their performance. BCM-CFM despite using both the performance management and appraisal system, need to thoroughly assess the culture and climate section which spelled out the disagreement in the statement that “I am satisfied my compensation matches my responsibilities”. Management should look into a way of how to link the two systems in question. The purpose of the study therefore is aimed at assessing whether there is a link between the performance management and appraisal system at BCM-CFM. Literature on performance appraisal has shown that the link between the two processes (Performance Management and Appraisal System) is vital to the success of the organisation. Organisational objectives are reached when the employees that are involved are well appraised with regards to their contributions