Journal articles: 'Lesotho National Development Corporation'

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Gwimbi, Patrick. "Mainstreaming national adaptation programmes of action into national development plans in Lesotho." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 9, no. 03 (May 15, 2017): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-11-2015-0164.

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Purpose The concept of National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) is advocated at international, regional and national levels. The concept is thought to foster sustainability of livelihoods against impacts of climate change. This paper analyses the mainstreaming of NAPA into national development plans in Lesotho as accentuated by policies and programmes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is broadly qualitative and reviews policies and projects on agriculture and food security, environment, forestry, water and irrigation aimed at sustaining rural livelihoods. Data from relevant government documents, commissioned studies’ reports, literature and key stakeholders are used. Findings Although the mainstreaming entry point for NAPA is identified in the country’s Vision 2020 and National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) 2012/13-2016/17, financial, technical, human and other resources are inadequate to ensure its effective implementation. There is little evidence of NAPA mainstreaming into development plans by the line ministries of finance and economic development other than donor-funded projects. Absence of climate change policy influence means NAPA is not well-factored into the national development agenda, as mainstreaming is difficult without appropriate policies. Most projects with effect on climate change impact abatement originate from specific sectors and are disconnected from each other. Originality/value Based on the findings, ways to leverage NAPA via mainstreaming are discussed. It is concluded that NAPA mainstreaming offers a promising avenue for initiating and promoting sustainable livelihoods in Lesotho. The study demonstrates the applicability of the presented sustainable livelihood framework.

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Mots'oene, Keneuoe, and Akinagum Esenjor. "Development Assistance in Lesotho: Is it a National Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development?" Africanus: Journal of Development Studies 46, no. 2 (October 26, 2017): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0304-615x/2292.

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This article argues that Lesotho’s increasing reliance on aid leads to economic decline, worsening living standards and eventually poverty, thus obstructing sustainable development. Studies done in the country are silent about the effect of aid on poverty reduction and sustainable development. The study fills this missing link in the literature. Aid as a resource must help a country to enable its citizens to live beyond consumption by creating other activities that will in the long-run, reduce vulnerability and poverty; thus promoting sustainable development, which is contrary to what has been prevailing in Lesotho. The worst scenario in Lesotho is the post-independence period, where almost all aid combined failed to bring the desired changes in the lives of the majority and instead, increased vulnerability and poverty, and resulted in unsustainable development.

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International Monetary Fund. "Kingdom of Lesotho: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: National Strategic Development Plan." IMF Staff Country Reports 12, no. 102 (2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475503241.002.

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Gopalakrishnan, R. "India and Tata: National Development and the Corporation." Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 3, no. 4 (October 2008): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2008.3.4.3.

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Molapo, Senei Solomon. "Optimal International Reserves in Lesotho." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 13 (May 30, 2016): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n13p282.

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Literature has addressed the issue of choosing reserves levels in the context of models based on traditional adequacy ratio. Above that, this study employs the model of Jeanne and Rancière (2006), which captured the unique characteristics of a country, and effects of a small and large external shocks portrayed that international reserves in Lesotho are kept at level higher than the optimum level. The results outlined that optimum level of reserves for Lesotho is on average 44 per cent of GDP for a small crisis and 47 per cent of GDP for a larger crisis. Subsequently, this leads to the conclusion that the amount of reserves exceeding the level of backing assets could be managed under a more return-oriented investment strategy in order to minimize the opportunity cost of reserves holding. Since there is evidence of excess funds, the authorities should strengthen the implementation capacity of the annual capital budgets by evolving a forceful and vigorous monitoring and evaluation framework in order to accomplish the National Vision 2020 goals. This will also create an opportunity to allocate resources to the National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) which provides overall national strategic thrust from 2012 to 2016.

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International Monetary Fund. "Kingdom of Lesotho: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the National Strategic Development Plan." IMF Staff Country Reports 12, no. 331 (2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475547689.002.

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Mojalefa, Mamoeletsi Limakatso. "Union Strategies of Addressing Conflicts at the National University of Lesotho." Business Management and Strategy 12, no. 1 (May 25, 2021): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/bms.v12i1.18617.

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This paper discusses the strategies that are used by the unions to address industrial conflict at the National university of Lesotho (NUL). Content analysis was undertaken to understand the interviewee’s responses and the NUL policy documents. The strategies are analyzed within the policy context, pre-industrial action, industrial action and post-industrial action. The study also shows that unions at the higher education institutions consult with other unions in the sector and, where other strategies have failed, they resort to either industrial action or legal process to resolve conflicts at the workplace. The findings further show that unions employ widespread communication between their members to share new development in the negotiation process. The findings reveal that strategies which unions normally adopt at NUL are: constant consultations and joint decision making, strikes/industrial action, work to rule, negotiations, collective bargaining, taking legal process and communication of possible ideas and solutions.

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Aerni-Flessner, John. "DEVELOPMENT, POLITICS, AND THE CENTRALIZATION OF STATE POWER IN LESOTHO, 1960–75." Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (September 22, 2014): 401–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853714000395.

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AbstractThe rhetoric of development served as a language for Sotho politicians from 1960–70 to debate the meanings of political participation. The relative paucity of aid in this period gave outsized importance to small projects run in rural villages, and stood in stark contrast to the period from the mid-1970s onwards when aid became an ‘anti-politics machine’ that worked to undermine national sovereignty. Examination of the democratic period in Lesotho from 1966–70 helps explain the process by which newly independent states gave up some of their recently won sovereignty, and how a turn to authoritarianism helped contribute to this process.

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Lai, Nan Jun. "New Energy Development and Utilization of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation." Advanced Materials Research 347-353 (October 2011): 1172–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.347-353.1172.

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Oil belongs to nonrenewable resources. With the oil supply relatively limited and the global economy enters a fast development cycle and oil demand is increasing, oil prices rising is inevitable. Impact of high oil prices is deep and continuous, will change our country’s energy production and consumption structure. As China’s largest offshore oil and gas producers, China’s CNOOC must take positive and correct development strategy, and energetically develop and use of in the new energy, and provide high quality energy for our country’s economic and social development. This paper expounds some effort in the field of new energy development and utilization of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation(CNOOC), mainly including wind power development, bio-fuels development, natural gas hydrate recover and so on.

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Graf, William, and Markus Link. "First National Development Corporation of SWA Ltd. Als Entwicklungsbank in SWA/Namibia." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 26, no. 2 (1992): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485894.

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McDermott, Mark. "National Intermediaries and Local Community Development Corporation Networks: A View from Cleveland." Journal of Urban Affairs 26, no. 2 (June 2004): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0735-2166.2004.00195.x.

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Weisfelder, Richard F. "Lesotho and the Inner Periphery in the New South Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 30, no. 4 (December 1992): 643–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00011095.

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Reform and the transformation of authoritarian régimes in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Horn of Africa have been associated with rampant nationalism, secession of component units, and ultimately, demands for the return of lost territories. By contrast, within supposedly ‘tribal’ Southern Africa, the African National Congress (A.N.C.) and its Africanist opponents are agreed that any settlement must apply to the whole of the Republic of South Africa, including the so-called ‘independent Homelands’.

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Nketekete, Malefetsane Elliot, and Mamoeletsi Limakatso Mojalefa. "A Critical Review of the National University of Lesotho Anti-Plagiarism Policy." Business and Management Horizons 9, no. 1 (June 23, 2021): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/bmh.v9i1.18787.

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Globally, higher education institutions (HEIs) adopt different strategies to curb plagiarism, which undermines the integrity of educational qualifications issued by these institutions. One of the key strategies adopted by HEIs is the development of anti-plagiarism policies. Emerging research from literature do indicate that effective strategies are educational and developmental intended to equip students with skills of acknowledging materials from other sources. Further, research indicates that anti-plagiarism policies reinforce negative attitudes towards plagiarism, hence adopting punitive strategies against the would-be perpetrators. The study reviewed the National University of Lesotho (NUL) anti-plagiarism policy, to determine the type of messages and discourses the policy communicates to its users. The study used document analysis, using the NUL anti-plagiarism policy as the unit of analysis. Content and discourse analysis were applied as research techniques. The study revealed that the policy communicated punitive and moral discourses. These discourses undermine the developmental aspects of academic writing. The study recommends the review of the policy to include educational and developmental discourses that would encourage that students’ academic writing is developed. Further, the University should review its policy not only to address students but members of staff.

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Mahmood, Mir Annice, and Shamim A. Sahibzada. "The Performance of Public Sector Enterprises: 1981-1986." Pakistan Development Review 26, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 793–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v26i4pp.793-803.

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This paper examines the operational performance of seven public sector enterprises in the large-scale manufacturing sector which include the Federal Chemical and Ceramics Corporation (FCCCL), National Fertilizer Corporation (NFC), Pakistan Automobile Corporation (PACO), Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), State Cement Corporation of Pakistan (SCCP), State Engineering Corporation (SEC), and State Petroleum Refining and Petro-chemical Corporation (PERAC). Together, these seven corporations have some 67 units under their control. Performance assessment can be undertaken in financial and economic terms. Under the former, the key indicators of performance include profitability ratios such as the Gross Profit Ratio, the Return on Investment Ratio, and the Return on Equity Ratio. Other financial ratios include the Debt: Equity Ratio, the Current Ratio, the Acid Test Ratio, the Asset Turnover Ratio, the Return on Asset Ratio, and the Net Profit Margin Ratio. These ratios may also be called Solvency and liquidity Ratios as they measure the financial performance of the enterprise concerned. The measures listed above dealing with the financial profitability of enterprises are estimated in the annual reports of the Experts Advisory Cell, of the Ministry of Production, Government of Pakistan.

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Hussain, Hani A. "“Kuwait Petroleum Corporation: New Horizons for National Oil Companies”." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 6, no. 4-5 (September 1988): 323–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014459878800600405.

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Kuwait, in nationalising our production of oil, formed the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) to operate as an integrated oil company with satelite specialised companies. Since its formation in 1980, KPC, like other suppliers, has had to cope with soft markets, low prices and the consequent reduced revenues and limitation on development. KPC's goals have been to both stabilise and maximise revenues and diversify its source. This has been facilitated through the use of the expertise in the public companies under its control. As a result KPC has invested US $4.5 billion in upgrading projects, acquired technology through purchasing Santa Fe International and entered downstream marketing successfully in Europe.

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Osipov, Evgeny, and Herman Pavlov. "WAYS OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN SCOPE OF NATIONAL PROJECTS." Fisheries 2020, no. 2 (April 13, 2020): 14–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37663/0131-6184-2020-2-14-17.

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The paper considers the state of the fisheries industry in Russia in context of national projects and the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. It is shown that currently the industry level excludes the possibility of national projects realisation due to the lack of mechanisms. An option has been proposed to create a state fisheries corporation that will carry out national projects and influence private fishing companies in the implementation of these projects.

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Rosenberg, Scott. "The National Union of Mines’ struggle for employment in Lesotho and South Africa." Journal of Southern African Studies 47, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 145–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1855924.

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Rosenberg, Scott. "Monuments, Holidays, and Remembering Moshoeshoe: The Emergence of National Identity in Lesotho, 1902-1966." Africa Today 46, no. 1 (January 1999): 48–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/aft.1999.46.1.48.

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Rosenberg, Scott. "Monuments, Holidays, and Remembering Moshoeshoe: The Emergence of National Identity in Lesotho, 1902-1966." Africa Today 46, no. 1 (1999): 49–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/at.2003.0083.

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Dele, Ishaka. "CORRUPTION AND ITS EFFECT ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (2000-2018)." International Journal of Advanced Research in Public Policy, Social Development and Enterprise Studies 4, no. 1 (March 25, 2021): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijarppsdes.v4.i1.04.

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The major objective of this study is to examine the effects of financial corruption on national development in Nigeria (1999-2017). The continuous outcry of the citizens on the evils of corruption and its consequences on national development motivated this study. Data were drawn chiefly from primary sources and subjected to statistical computations of scaling and percentages. The major findings of the study revealed that to a large extent corruption leads to poverty in Nigeria. Also to a large extent increase in oil revenues do not translate to poverty reduction in Nigeria. The study equally, found that to a large extent the oil industry causes underdevelopment and increase poverty in Nigeria. This study therefore advances that stiffer sanctions must be imposed on those found guilty of corrupt practices including death sentences. This will serve as deterrent to others. Since corruption is a relationship of ‘give and take’, both the giver and the receiver must be prosecuted as well. There is the need to strengthen institutions such as the civil service, parliament and the judiciary, which in turn will create interlocking systems of oversight and self-regulation. All of these institutions have to be free of corruption themselves and active players in the fight against corruption and good governance should be entrenched.

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Southon, J. R., and G. M. Santos. "Ion Source Development at Kccams, University of California, Irvine." Radiocarbon 46, no. 1 (2004): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200039321.

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The Keck Carbon Cycle accelerator mass spectrometry facility at the University of California, Irvine, operates a National Electronics Corporation 40-sample MC-SNICS ion source. We describe modifications that have increased beam current output, improved reliability, and made the source easier to service.

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Egbuta, Olive U. "Leadership Succession Practices And Employees’ Career Development In The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation." Journal of WEI Business and Economics 8, no. 1 (January 28, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.36739/jweibe.2019.v8.i1.16.

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The inability of organizations to have a well-articulated Leadership Succession plan and culture has led to disruptions in operations and leadership transition crisis. Limited literature is available on the relationship between leadership succession planning and employees career development in NNPC raising debate whether the link is tenable with the corporation. In the NNPC, there is no deliberate and structured plan for leadership succession. So, this study examined the effect of leadership succession planning on employees’ career development in NNPC. The Social Cognitive Career Theory and Common-Sense Theory were used to support this research. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the research consisted of 9,024 top level, middle level and lower level management (Supervisors) staff of the NNPC who has spent more than 5years in the organization and have up to 5 years before retirement age of 60 years and sample size of 1,960 was derived using Slovin formula and purposive sampling procedure. Structured questionnaire with a six-point modified Likert- Scale was administered with a 74.6% response rate (926) copies of the questionnaires came correctly and were used for the study. The data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that there is lack of leadership succession planning and practices in NNPC. The also revealed that there is no established career path for every employee and professional groups in NNPC. The study concludes that Leadership Succession practice have no significant effect on Employee Career Development in NNPC. The study recommends that Federal Government should empower the NNPC to put in place proper Leadership Succession planning especially in HR itself. This can be achieved when the corporation embeds a formal employee career development policy and procedure. Also, NNPC should continuously be strategizing and moving with the global trend in HR practices and to learn about future possibilities. The NNPC management and staff should align themselves with strategies to survive in the changing global business reality

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Workman, Cassandra L. "Ebbs and Flows of Authority: Decentralization, Development and the Hydrosocial Cycle in Lesotho." Water 11, no. 2 (January 22, 2019): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11020184.

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Dominant development discourse holds that water scarcity reflects geophysical limitations, lack of infrastructure or lack of government provision. However, this paper outlines the ways in which scarcity can only be fully explained in the context of development, specifically, neoliberal economic policies and related notions of good governance. Water is Lesotho’s primary natural resource, yet many of its inhabitants remain severely water insecure. Presently, decentralization and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) are embraced in Lesotho as a philosophy and method to engage varied stakeholders and to empower community members. Using a water committee in Qalo, Lesotho as a case study, this paper explores the micro-politics of water governance. As individuals contest who is responsible for managing water resources for the village—by aligning themselves with traditional chiefs, elected officials, or neither—they transform or reinforce specific hydro-social configurations. While decentralized resource management aims to increase equity and local ownership over resources, as well as moderate the authority of traditional chiefs, water access is instead impacted by conflicts over management responsibility for water resources. Drawing on theories of political ecology and governmentality to extend recent scholarship on IWRM, this paper re-centers the political in water governance by situating local tensions within national policies and development agendas and demonstrating how scarcity is hydro-social.

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Kuznetsov, Maksim, and Svetlana Kuznetsova. "Corporation Process Development as the Key Issue of Technical and Economic Breakthrough." SHS Web of Conferences 93 (2021): 03019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219303019.

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The article is devoted to issues of technical and economic development and the strategy of the Russian Federation entering the position of process breakthrough. The role of Russian corporations in the national strategic development is investigated. The decisive role of corporations under conditions of high-tech functioning and the resulting complexity of breakdown solutions is substantiated. The attention is drawn to the inconsistency of Russian corporations with the breakthrough strategy requirements put forward by the government as the national idea, due to low innovation potential. A proposal is made on the use of a systemic - synergetic approach to solving issues of process development. The process development is placed at the center of issues being solved and is regarded as a critical condition for the organization and implementation of a process breakthrough.

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LETSELA, LIMPHO, ANDRE PELSER, and MAITLAND SEAMAN. "A PARTICIPATORY SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN LESOTHO." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 12, no. 02 (June 2010): 107–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333210003590.

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Sustainability assessment processes are increasingly being applied towards integration of the sustainability agenda within diverse decision-making jurisdictions. This paper seeks to contribute insights from a process undertaken within rural areas in Lesotho. A learning-by-doing and people-centred approach was explored within a qualitative multiple case study to integrate biodiversity considerations within the broader livelihoods sustainability context. Stakeholders collectively determined interpretations, aspirations and priorities for action planning and pathways that sustain biodiversity. This process yielded a functional context-specific sustainability assessment framework to guide stakeholders when embarking on biodiversity interventions that enhance supply of ecosystem services in and outside protected areas. However, the effectiveness of the process requires that it should be nested within an enabling environment characterised by relevant international and national biodiversity policy and strategic frameworks, decision- making structures, funding, tools and expertise, sensitisation and capacity-building.

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Kahimbaara, J. A. "The Convolution of Urban Planning with Tradition in Lesotho, 1928–91." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 25, no. 7 (July 1993): 1003–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a251003.

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The failure to implement professional urban planning in Lesotho between 1928 and 1991, within the political economy framework of peripheral capitalism, is examined in this paper. During the period under review, legislation was the predominant planning instrument. Spatial urban planning appears to have been effective during the colonial period largely because of the existence of a clear colonial ideology, a small and economically empowered urban population to plan for, and relatively skilled workers. The urban landscape was thus highly simplified and therefore relatively easy to manage. During the period of political independence, however, urban planning was marked by contradictions within the value system of the elite and, consequently, by severely constrained efforts to enact and implement urban planning legislation, lack of a focused development ideology, a relatively large and mostly impoverished national urban population, and a lack of skilled workers.

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Novoskoltseva, Liudmyla. "Globalization as Principal Vector of the World Development." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 40 (December 15, 2019): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2019.40.67-75.

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The article is focused on global subjects of the world community and consideration of geopolitical determinants that are dominant for the development of the new direction of the global community, as well as geopolitical centers of the modern world, geopolitical operations, their role and prospects for world ethnocultural civilizations. Keywords: Globalization, global studies, geopolitics, civilization, world economy, Multinational Corporation, national borders, terrorism.

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KUSAKA, GORO. "On research and development projects of Technical Research. Center in Japan National Oil Corporation." Journal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology 51, no. 4 (1986): 288–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3720/japt.51.288.

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Goncharov, Victor I., C. R. D. Halisi, and Yevgeny Tarabrin. "Recommendations: Southern African Development Coordination Conference and African Security." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 17, no. 1 (1988): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700500870.

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The overwhelmingly dominant regional power of southern Africa, South Africa, attempts to contain the political, economic, and military interdependence of neighboring states, irrespective of ideological preference. The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) founded in 1980, is the response of the other states in the region to South Africa’s ambitions to maintain regional hegemony. Its nine member state are Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and an independent Namibia is expected to join. The specific objectives of SADCC, as stated in the 1980 Lusaka Declaration, are the reduction of economic dependence in general (not only on South Africa); the forging of links to create a genuinely meaningful and equitable system of regional integration; the mobilization of resources to support national, interstate, and regional policies; and concerted action to secure international cooperation for the purpose of economic liberation.

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Chingono, Mark. "Women, the Informal Economy and the State in Lesotho." World Journal of Social Science Research 3, no. 4 (November 29, 2016): 629. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v3n4p629.

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Poor women in Lesotho endure a triple jeopardy of exploitation by patriarchy, capitalism and the state. To escape from this jeopardy increasing numbers of poor women are entering the informal economy, which is increasingly becoming the major dynamic and expanding sector of the economy. Becoming informal entrepreneurs has not only financially empowered women, but has also subverted traditional patriarchal gender power relations. This paper, based on a critical field survey, considers the experience of women in the informal sector, changes in gender and class relations and the contribution of the informal economy to national development. The paper shows that the informal economy is a contested terrain in which kinship values of the economy of affection coexist in dynamic tension with those of primitive capitalism, and that the patriarchal and weak state is the major obstacle to poor women’s emancipation. It concludes that, since the informal economy is the only vehicle for poor women’s empowerment, policy must optimize the benefits of the informal sector while limiting its excesses.

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Ahmadi, Noor Roufiq, Maesti Mardiharini, and Chandra Indrawanto. "Pineapple farmer corporation development strategy in Central Lampung District, Indonesia." E3S Web of Conferences 306 (2021): 02055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130602055.

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Central Lampung is a pineapple production center that supplies fresh pineapples for national demand. On the other hand, Sub-optimal production and marketing, which are still controlled by middlemen, are the main problems in pineapple development. The research aims to identify the potential and needs for innovation, and to formulate a strategy for developing pineapple based on farmer cooperations. The research was conducted from September 2020 in Punggur District, Lampung. Data collection was carried out through a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and in-depth interviews with local champions. The SWOT approach as well as IFE and EFE analysis have been determine to the best strategy. The results showed that farmers used the Queen variety from 1970, so that, the quality production decreased. The innovations needed are mainly related to cultivation (irrigation, crop rotation, control of pests). The existence of Farmer-Owned Enterprises in collaboration with BUMDES has the potential to be reactivated into a farmer corporation. The IFE and EFE analysis showed that the strategy that needs to be taken is the development strategy (SO strategy). Therefor, Policies that need to be followed is increasing: The role and skills of extension workers; and the role of farmers group or corporation in pineapple production and marketing.

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Tara, S. Nayana, and N. S. Sanath Kumar. "In Conversation with S. Ramadorai, Chairman, National Skill Development Agency & National Skill Development Corporation; Former CEO, MD & Vice Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services." IIMB Management Review 28, no. 4 (December 2016): 184–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iimb.2016.10.010.

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Leokaoke, Makhetha JM, Moliehi M. M. Mokalanyane, and Molise M. M. Mabele. "Development and Implementation of Competency Based Curriculum for Medical Laboratory Science at the National Health Training College in Lesotho." American Journal of Clinical Pathology 140, suppl 1 (September 1, 2013): A133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/140.suppl1.133.

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Thetsane, Regina. "The Validity and Reliability of Student Evaluation of Teaching at the National University of Lesotho." International Journal of African Higher Education 8, no. 1 (April 18, 2021): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ijahe.v8i1.13367.

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Many Higher Education Institutions use the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) scale to evaluate the quality of instructors’ teaching. It includes students’ evaluation of the teacher, the teaching process, teaching approaches and the learning outcomes. Due to its reported dubious reliability and validity, and inherent bias in measuring the quality of teaching, SET remains a hotly debated and controversial instrument. This study evaluated thereliability and validity of the SET scale adopted by the National University of Lesotho. Self-administered SET questionnaires were distributed to 104 third- and fourth-year Bachelor of Commerce students to evaluate ten lecturers, resulting in 751 assessment records. The data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). While the findings suggest that the SET instrument used at the university is reasonably reliable and valid, minor concerns were raised with regard to discriminant validity, and serious concerns in relation to content validity. Based on the existing literature and the psychometric properties of this SET instrument, it is recommended that university management exercise caution in using its results to make evaluative personnel decisions such as promotions, confirmations, and dismissals. It is also recommended that the SET instrument should be revised and validated and be primarily used for formative purposes such as obtaining feedback for the development of individual instructors. Key words: formative assessment, reliability, student evaluation of teaching, summative assessment, validity

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Kironde, J. M. Lusugga. "Rent Control Legislation and the National Housing Corporation in Tanzania, 1985-1990." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 26, no. 2 (1992): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485874.

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Kironde, J. M. Lusugga. "Rent Control Legislation and the National Housing Corporation in Tanzania, 1985–1990." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 26, no. 2 (January 1992): 306–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.1992.10804291.

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Li, Hui, Ruiqin Li, Jianwei Zhang, and Pengyu Zhang. "Development of a Pipeline Inspection Robot for the Standard Oil Pipeline of China National Petroleum Corporation." Applied Sciences 10, no. 8 (April 20, 2020): 2853. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10082853.

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The periodic inspection for oil pipelines is required due to the deterioration over time. A multitude of factors brings such a deterioration, from corrosion, leaks, to cracks, which may lead to blowbacks and cause the damages for operators and the environments. With the progress of robotics technology, various types of mobile robots and mechanisms are designed to cope with this issue. Rather than the assignment of human workers in hazardous environments, the deployment of such kinds of inspection robots can take on this duty more time-efficiently and safely, preventing the human workers from the high-risk of the inspection task in the oil pipelines. This paper presents a novel design of a mobile robot for oil pipeline inspection, which is cooperated with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). With the improvement of the previous inspection robot used in CNPC’s standard oil pipelines, the newly designed robot is composed of six groups of symmetrical supporting wheels, and a more powerful motors as well as a more advanced control system. This new design endows the oil pipeline inspection robot with better performance on six aspects: traction, obstacle-adaptivity, operation endurance, gradeability, visual perception, and stability. The field testing results at multiple oil transfer stations across several months demonstrate the reliability of this mobile robot under various severe situations in China and validate its performance in the studied aspects.

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Li, Hui, Xiao Hong Ge, and Dun Ming Liao. "Development & Application for a Visual Casting Process CAD System of Copper Alloy." Advanced Materials Research 179-180 (January 2011): 534–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.179-180.534.

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On the basis of AutoCAD, a visual casting process CAD system for copper alloy, using VC++.NET 2002 and re-development tool ObjectARX, is developed by key technologies including exchanging data between Access and MFC ODBC, graphics preview and real-time rendering. This system also accords with the national casting standards & requirement of a corporation, can realize real-time feedback in casting process design and improve the efficiency and accuracy availably.

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Makwindi, Ngonidzashe, and Joram Ndlovu. "Prospects and Challenges of Community-Based Tourism as a Livelihood Diversification Strategy at Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho." African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 10(1), no. 10(1) (February 28, 2021): 333–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-104.

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The purpose of this article was to examine the prospects and challenges of community based tourism as a livelihood diversification strategy for people living adjacent to the Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho. The main objective was to explore how rural communities living close to the World Heritage Site shift and diversity their livelihoods from farm to non-farm activities in order to sustain their livelihoods. This study adopted a mixed method approach. Data was collected through surveys (286) and in-depth key informant interviews (11). The results show that local communities support the use of tourism as a livelihood diversification strategy to provide off-farm entrepreneurial opportunities. The greatest challenge is that local communities are often pushed into marginal lands, with harsh climatic conditions resulting in the disruption of local fabric and their economies. The study concludes that the establishment of Sehlabathebe National Park has not significantly improved the status quo of the community. Therefore, local communities should be given opportunities to sell their products and services to tourists and work in partnership with park authorities in conserving the park resources. The paper contributes to the current discourses on the use of community based tourism as a livelihood diversification strategy in rural areas.

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Rogov, N. V., and I. V. Kazmina. "Features of property management of corporations of the military-industrial complex in the production of high-tech products." Proceedings of the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies 83, no. 1 (June 3, 2021): 353–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.20914/2310-1202-2021-1-353-359.

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In the context of the systemic reform of the Russian economy, there is a tendency to the emergence of corporations in various sectors of the national economy. The military-industrial complex is no exception. The article deals with the specifics of property management of corporations of the military-industrial complex in the production of high-tech products. To achieve the strategic goals of the corporation, it is necessary to develop a strategy based on objective forecasts of the development of the arms market, taking into account potential external and internal risks, as well as an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the corporation. Corporate governance is based on the existing norms in the field of financial activities, securities, labor relations in the labor market, contractual obligations, and contractual activities between enterprises. It is proved that the adaptive development of corporations of the military-industrial complex directly depends on the competent organization of financial activities, as well as within its framework of credit and investment activities. The article presents the balance sheet model of financing of the defense industry corporation, which allows to form the budget of the defense industry corporation, based on the allocation of financial resources for the operation and development of the main activities of the defense industry corporation. One of the most important tasks of managing the property of corporations of the military-industrial complex is to provide opportunities for scientific and technological development, which, after commercialization, can create key strategic competitive advantages for enterprises of the defense industry corporation.

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Shah, S. M. Aamir, and Syed Tahir Hijazi. "Performance Evaluation of Mutual Funds in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 44, no. 4II (December 1, 2005): 863–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v44i4iipp.863-876.

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In Pakistan Mutual Funds were introduced in 1962, when the public offering of National Investment (Unit) Trust (NIT) was introduced which is an open-end mutual fund. In 1966 another fund that is Investment Corporation of Pakistan (ICP) was establishment. ICP subsequently offered a series of closed-end mutual funds. Up to early 1990s, twenty six (26) closed-end ICP mutual funds had been floated by Investment Corporation of Pakistan. After considering the option of restructuring the corporation, government decided to wind up ICP in June, 2000. In 2002, the Government started Privatisation of the Investment Corporation of Pakistan. 25 Out of 26 closed-end funds of ICP were split into two lots. There had been a competitive bidding for the privatisation of funds. Management Right of Lot-A comprising 12 funds was acquired by ABAMCO Limited. Out of these 12, the first 9 funds were merged into a single closed-end fund and that was named as ABAMCO Capital Fund, except 4th ICP mutual fund as the certificate holders of the 4th ICP fund had not approved the scheme of arrangement of Amalgamation into ABAMCO capital fund in their extra ordinary general meeting held on December 20, 2003. The fund has therefore been reorganised as a separate closedend trust and named as ABAMCO Growth Fund. Rest of the three funds were merged into another single and named as ABAMCO Stock Market Fund. So far as the Lot-B is concerned, it comprised of 13 ICP funds, for all of these thirteen funds, the Management Right was acquired by PICIC Asset Management Company Limited. All of these thirteen funds were merged into a single closed-end fund which was named as “PICIC Investment Fund”. Later on the 26th fund of ICP (ICP-SEMF) was also acquired by PICIC Asset Management Company Limited.

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Pike, Kelly. "Dialogue and Coordination: How Hybrid Models Can Strengthen Labor Standards Enforcement." Journal of Developing Societies 36, no. 3 (June 3, 2020): 312–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0169796x20924577.

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This article examines the factors that limit and support the capacity of developing states to regulate labor in the public and private spheres, as well as the role of international parties in strengthening that capacity. The purpose is to better understand the potential for a more coordinated approach informed by hybrid models of enforcement, which can contribute to closing regulatory gaps. Fieldwork was carried out in the garment sectors in South Africa and Lesotho during 2018, including 20 semi-structured interviews with industry stakeholders representing government, business, and labor. Findings indicate that the developing state has an important role to play in facilitating a more coordinated approach between systems of enforcement, including public and private enforcement agencies, national development agencies, manufacturers, buyers, and unions. The case studies indicate the potential of such an approach to, for example, improve inspection quality, accountability, and transparency. The state can play an active role in facilitating a hybrid approach to regulation that involves both state and non-state actors, with dialogue and coordination at the core of addressing broader challenges for enforcement.

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Wang, Qi. "The Research and Construction of National Grid ERP Knowledge Management System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 496-500 (January 2014): 2112–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.496-500.2112.

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A lot of domestic and international researches show that the effective management of knowledge has become a powerful way to improve the performance and success in many enterprises. Power concerns a countrys economy and its peoples livelihood so that knowledge management has been widespread concern in the power grid enterprises development and application. On April 29, 2007 , the State Grid Corporation decided to adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as the core information technology platform and principal means for the informatization construction. In order to improve the efficiency of knowledge dissemination in National Grid ERP and make all the ERP modules theoretical knowledge to be shared, consulted and applied quickly among all he ERP users, this subject was based on the core ideas and characteristics of ERP in Hebei Electric Power Corporation, combined with its use problem of ERP to analyze specifically on the system requirements, functional design, build programs , feasibility and innovation, used ASP.NET and other technologies to achieve the construction of national grid ERP knowledge management system, and provide a knowledge management system (KMS) for quickly accessing, learning and sharing knowledge. It has great practical value.

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CHESSON, JEAN. "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CONNECTING PRACTICE WITH THEORY." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 15, no. 01 (March 2013): 1350002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333213500026.

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The desire to demonstrate performance with respect to sustainable development has led to a profusion of approaches. The widespread use of quantitative indicators often appears unconnected to any theory of sustainable development. One reason for this disconnect is that theoretical treatments have tended to focus on global and national scales whereas practical attempts to report on sustainable development tend to operate at smaller scales such as regions, industries and corporations. The relevance of existing theory to those reporting at smaller scales is not widely recognised. This paper develops an approach to reporting that is motivated by a theoretical interpretation of sustainable development in terms of assets. The approach is illustrated with a hypothetical example. The asset-based approach can be applied in a variety of contexts (national, regional, industry, corporation and product) and provides a common framework for linking what have been regarded as disparate approaches to reporting on sustainable development. The recognition that different players have responsibilities for different mixes of assets is the key to understanding how performance should be measured and how information can be combined to report at different scales.

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Paju, Petri, and Thomas Haigh. "IBM's Tiny Peripheral: Finland and the Tensions of Transnationality." Business History Review 92, no. 1 (2018): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680518000028.

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IBM Finland, a small national subsidiary, was at once a Finnish business and an interface to much larger networks of technological innovation and knowledge sharing. We contextualize its development within a nested set of institutions and identities: IBM's Nordic operations, its European business, and its World Trade Corporation. Its development was profoundly shaped by Finland's unique geopolitical position during the Cold War. IBM's internal structures anticipated and paralleled those of the European Union, with mechanisms for international cooperation, for the creation of transnational identities, and for the resolution and regulation of disputes between national subsidiaries.

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Shipshova, Ol'ga, and Guzel Rahimova. "Ensuring the economic security of the state in the context of globalization and the development of transnational corporations." Russian Journal of Management 8, no. 3 (November 24, 2020): 66–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/2409-6024-2020-8-3-66-70.

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Ensuring of economic security plays an important role for both economic entity and the state. At the same time economic security is an important component of the national one. Today strengthening and emergence of new threats of economic security happens in the conditions of manifestation of globalization and integration processes. At the same time active development of a world economic complex of the trade, production, financial relations continues. National economies intertwine, complete each other and depend from each other. It makes clear allocation of one more classification of threats of economic security connected with the globalization and the threats which don't depend on it. The role and value of multinational corporations in processes of globalization of economy and their influence on the level of economic security of the country are discovered in this article. Main threats which arise in the course of activity of multinational corporations (multinational corporation) in domestic markets of the country are considered. Authors made the analysis methodological and aspects of emergence of multinational corporations and separate stages of their development. Also during the research the main competitive advantages of multinational corporation which lead to improvement of production forces were revealed and promote strengthening of globalization of economy and the world competitive relations.

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Motsâ€™oene, Keneuoe Anacletta. "Analyzing Gender Disparities in the Labour Market in an Urbanizing City- Maseru, Lesotho." Journal of Social and Development Sciences 8, no. 1 (April 24, 2017): 20–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v8i1.1614.

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The study aimed at investigating the gender differences in the labour market of the urban formal sector in Maseru. The research was undertaken to illustrate the existing gender gap between men and women both in occupation and remuneration thus exposing inequality manifestations particularly in an urbanizing city, Maseru. The assessment was carried out in Maseru urban formal sector in three government entities: the National Manpower Development Secretariat, Office of the Auditor General and Ministry of Labour. The three government entities were purposively selected because of easy access of documented data and availability of resource persons to assist during data collection exercise. While at the same time a few interviews were conducted with men working in the taxi industry and the informal sector. Observations as well formed part of approach to the study to ascertain the validity of information obtained from the documented data and interviews. The main finding of the paper is that women in Lesotho the paper concludes that the formal labour market in Maseru is characterized by gender gaps where women occupy well salaried positions as opposed to their male counterparts with these low income jobs thus making men live in vicious cycle of poverty.

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Otero-Iglesias, Miguel, and Manuel Weissenegger. "Motivations, security threats and geopolitical implications of Chinese investment in the EU energy sector: the case of CDP Reti." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 2 (September 12, 2019): 594–620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066119871350.

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The recent surge in Chinese outbound foreign direct investment in Europe has been met with anxiety often invoking national security concerns. Using the national security framework developed by Moran and Oldenski, we try to ascertain which transactions justify apprehension. Our case study is the acquisition by a subsidiary of wholly state-owned State Grid Corporation of China of a 35% stake in CDP Reti S.p.A. (CDP Reti) that controls Italy’s electricity grid via its subsidiary Terna S.p.A. Although State Grid Corporation of China can nominate two members of CDP Reti’s board of directors, we find that there is no direct threat to national security. We then tackle the geopolitical dimension of investments in electricity grids. Using the ‘thought experiment’ developed by Scholten and Bosman, the contribution we make is that, in a world where the importance of renewable energy increases, a framing power rather than control over the strategic development of a country’s grid is sufficient to exert geopolitical power. Since State Grid Corporation of China’s exponents on CDP Reti’s board can at least partly influence the company’s investment decisions, we conclude that the transaction grants China geopolitical influence over Italy’s grid. Furthermore, in the future this type of geopolitical influence could also lead to indirect security concerns. The interconnection of European electricity flows extends this conclusion to the EU’s electricity grid as a whole.

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Mushonga, Munyaradzi, and Heidi Hudson. "Power and Resistance: Struggles over Organisational Transformation and Restructuring at the National University of Lesotho in the 21st Century." Journal of Southern African Studies 46, no. 4 (July 3, 2020): 655–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2020.1794391.

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Kokoreva, Tatyana. "Transnational Corporations as Business Entities in the Banking Sector." Legal Concept, no. 4 (February 2021): 137–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2020.4.18.

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Introduction: the paper is devoted to the study of the essence of understanding TNCs in the banking sector through the analysis of such concepts as “transnational company (corporation)”, “international company (corporation)”, “international bank” and “transnational bank”. To this end, the author examines the concept and features of transnational corporations in the banking sector, their essential features, highlighted by the civil doctrine and used by judicial practice. Using the methods of scientific cognition, primarily the method of system and comparative analysis, the author identifies the constituent features of a transnational corporation by applying an insight-substantive approach to the study of the concept of TNCs as the largest intermediary in the system of international capital migration. Results: it is established that in the modern scientific literature there is no single approach to understanding the transnational corporation in the banking sector. In order to determine the main approaches to the understanding of TNCs in the banking sector, the author’s approaches to the definition of this phenomenon are systematized. The study identifies three groups of approaches: a TNC as a national company transcending the state; a TNC as a set of national companies; a TNC as a parent company operating in several states. Conclusions: the author concludes that a TNC in the banking sector should be understood as a transnational bank operating in several countries on the basis of an institutionalized network of representative offices operating on the basis of the national legislation of the countries of operation, which allows them to ensure the international movement of capital in order to diversify the economy and stimulate the innovative development of international economic relations.

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