Category Behavioural Economics

Behavioural Economics and Knowledge Management in African Resource Systems: A New Way to Understand Infrastructure Failure – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

Across Africa, systems used for management of land administration, natural resources, and public utilities often underperform despite significant investment. Traditional explanations focus on infrastructure gaps, funding constraints, or policy weaknesses. However, in my opinion such challenges demonstrate a deeper structural issue: resource system failure is…

Why Land Governance Fails in Africa: Trust, Behaviour, and Broken Information Systems – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

Land governance in Africa remains one of the most persistent development challenges. Despite reforms, digitisation efforts, and legal restructuring, land disputes continue to surface across regions. From my analysis, the issue is not simply legal complexity, It is structural. Land systems are not…

African Resource Governance Failure: Why Land, Natural Resources, and Sustainability Systems Keep Breaking Down – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

Across Africa, governance debates around land, natural resources, and sustainability are often treated as separate policy domains.Land reform is discussed in one space. Environmental governance in another. Sustainability in another. But from my experience, on the ground, these are not separate systems. The systems are…

Why Water Utilities Fail in Africa: Behavioural Economics and Knowledge Management Explained – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

Performance trends across utility services in Africa reveal a consistent pattern showing that technical upgrades alone do not solve service delivery problems. Utility systems fail because they are human systems, shaped by behaviour and knowledge flows. In such a perspective, productivity and performance are viewed as behavioral…

How behavioural economics and knowledge management failures—not infrastructure or technology—drive poor performance in Africa’s public utilities sector – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

The behavioural economics problem no one in management is really talking about… Africa does not have a data problem anymore. That much is clear. Water. Electricity. Transport. Telecoms. Public utilities are now filled with dashboards, KPIs, reports, and “real-time” systems. And yet…Performance is…

Why Utility Services Fail in Africa: Water, Electricity, and the Behavioural Economics Problem – by Dr. Kefentse Mzwinila

Performance trends across utility services in Africa reveal a consistent pattern showing that technical upgrades alone do not solve service delivery problems. Utility systems fail because they are human systems, shaped by behaviour and knowledge flows. In such a perspective, productivity and performance are viewed as behavioral…