Operational Research(ers) in development: Growing a new generation of operational researchers

This paper explores the theme of training operational research (OR) practitioners in South Africa by critically evaluating a Masters program in Operational Research in Development (ORD), launched in 2005 at the University of Cape Town. This program was specifically focused on applying OR to the prob...

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Main Authors: I Durbach, L Scott, J Nyirenda, S Silal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2013-06-01
Series:ORiON
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/128