Botswana

the public perceive nursing (Gordon& Nelson, 2005). Image refers to the tangible or visible representations and/or perceptions resulting from a person’s conduct as a professional, linked to competence and ethical behaviour. (Nurses Association of Botswana (NAB), 2010). In other words, the impression we leave with others (Kunde , 2010). Image is very much evident in our lives, as it influences our interaction with and expectation towards others, and conveys messages as to how we see them.…

Based on the resource curse thesis, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the abundance natural resources and economic growth. Gelb’s (1988) cross-country economic analysis of oil exporting countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago) was one of the early studies on the negative connection between natural resources wealth and economic development. The studies revealed that windfalls from natural resources during the booms periods of 1974 – 1978…

diamond manufacturing sectors. The company was established in 1888 by British businessman Cecil Rhodes and funded by London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank and the South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit. They have many places for mining like Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.However; there was a big debate about some of unethical works the company involved in, including price fixing, Deceitful Advertising, Discrimination and Human Rights Abuses. In this research I will examine the…

Global governance is the idea that every country should be so politically integrated that the rules binding them especially in terms of international trade relations and globalisation is barrier free. In my opinion, this is a phenomenon that has been attempted multiple time with little success rate or complete benefit for every individual member state. It has been tried globally with organizations like the WTO, it has been tried with countries within the same geographical location like ECOWAS or…

Through research Donald Fiske (1949) and his colleagues were able to come up with something known as the Big Five. The Big Five is made up of the basic five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. While doing multiple studies, researchers did not being their theories about how many factors they would find or what the basic dimensions of personality would be, they let the data do all the talking. By collecting the data they were able to…

In his book, The Bottom Billion, Collier explores the reasons why poor countries fail to progress despite international aid and support. By his count, there are just fewer than 60 economies whose residents have experienced little, if any, income growth over the 1980s and 1990s. These countries are home to almost 1 billion people, who constitute this ‘Bottom Billion’. He contends that the Bottom Billion countries typically suffer from one or more, what he calls, “development traps” that hinder a…

This paper corresponds to case study of DeBeers’s Diamond Dilemma in which I have performed PESTEL and Five Forces Analysis of DeBeers’s Diamond. DeBeers has two aims; to be the top company of diamond seller and make diamond available for everyone in the market. In the first part I’ve executed PESTEL Analysis on the DeBeers prevailing confronting position and focused on the significant troubles that DeBeers needs to ascertain its resolution. PESTEL analysis refers to a framework that marketers…

Question 2: In the paper titled “What Hunters do for a living?” in the Case Studies folder on the moodle for the course, how does the author establish that the lives of the Bushmen that he studies are not “nasty, short and brutish?” What does this say in general about hunter-gatherer societies and their quality of their existence? Do you think that the quality of life as described in the paper qualifies or does not qualify as well-being in the modern sense? Briefly justify your answer.…

making South Africa have a democratic government were certain. To other African rulers, his want for freedom and justice were the biggest dreams of the world. Before the 1990's, there were two multi-party democracies in Africa. These countries were Botswana and Gambia. Many countries within the continent were ruled by dictators. With Mandela, he gave hope to the rest of Africa. Crowds of cheering people followed him everywhere he…

The issue of migration is a pressing problem now in Ghana because it highly affects country’s economy and development in every sphere of life. Even though there are seasonal waves of migration to Ghana from other countries, but still due to poverty and critical economic situation people move to neighbouring countries or to other continents. From pre-colonial times up to the late 1960s, Ghana enjoyed relative economic prosperity and was the destination of many migrants from neighbouring West…