Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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Idioms of accumulation : socio-economic development in an African freehold farming area in Rhodesia.
(1975)No abstract available. -
Inflation in South Africa, 1921 to 2006 : history, measurement and credibility.
(2007)This study reports the development and use of an original methodology to measure inflation credibility, as well as the first results of such measurement in terms of an inflation credibility barometer. The barometer ... -
Informal sector taxation : the case of Zimbabwe.
(2014)The economic crisis in Zimbabwe has had a profound impact on the labour market. As job opportunities in the formal sector have shrunk due to the contraction of the economy, the informal sector has been showing rapid ... -
Informalities of urban space, street trading and policy in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
(2020)As cities in the global South undergo rapid informalisation, their respective governments have utilised technocratic and modernist “spatial rationalities” to regulate this urban process. Evidently, through use of plans, ... -
Informality and urban agricultural participation in KwaZulu-Natal : 1993-2004.
(2012)The aim of the study was to find out whether or not engagement in urban agriculture for individuals and households is a response to a lack of formal wage employment in the post-apartheid period. This period is characterised ... -
Integrated water resources management and the manufactured scarcity of water in Africa.
(2014)The African version of the neo-liberal system known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has had especially dubious results in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. Two factors – cost recovery and decentralisation of ... -
Male partner involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV: a mixed methods study of the Gokwe North District, Zimbabwe.
(2018)The aim of this study was to shed insight into male partner involvement in the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programmes in the Gokwe North district in Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the ... -
Male sexual behaviour and protective practices in the context of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic : a case study of an urban and rural area in Mozambique.
(2010)This study investigates male sexual behaviour and protective practices in the context of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique. It focus on how gender norms, particularly notions of masculinity influence sexual ... -
Measuring and valuing unpaid care work : assessing the gendered implications of South Africa's home-based care policy.
(2010)The objective of this research is to reveal the implications of the choice of home- and community-based care as opposed to other policy choices and, using a gendered lens, to find a plausible way of assessing the social ... -
The persistence of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa : assets, livelihoods and differentiation in KwaZulu-Natal, 1993-2004.
(2008)The situation in South Africa presents unique challenges to achieving sustained poverty reduction. Although it is an upper-middle-income country with a per capita income similar to that of Botswana, Brazil or Malaysia, a ... -
Political economy of crisis, mining and accumulation in Zimbabwe : evidence from the Chegutu Mhondoro Area.
(2013)This thesis has its foundations in a 2007 master’s research on the political economy of “illegal” gold panning in central Zimbabwe. A book chapter (Moore and Mawowa, 2010) and a journal article (Mawowa, 2013) have since ... -
The politics of co-optation and of non-collaboration.
(1991)Since the outbreak of the Soweto uprising in 1976 there has been a noticeable change in the thinking of the South African government. This change has been evident in the departure from classical Verwoerdian apartheid to ... -
Population dynamics and sustainable forest conservation : a case study of the West Matogoro Catchment Area in Songea, Tanzania.
(2010)For decades linkages between population, development and environment have been related to population growth which refers to the increase of population size without consideration of its internal dynamics, i.e. sex composition ... -
A realist explanation of long run development interventions contexts, adaptations and outcomes of dairy improvement in Kenya.
(2014)Despite continued pursuit of development interventions to improve people’s livelihoods and reduce poverty, intended and actual outcomes of developments interventions may differ. Some scholars attribute this variation to ... -
A realistic explanation of long run development interventions contexts, adaptations and outcomes of dairy improvement in Kenya.
(2014)Despite continued pursuit of development interventions to improve people’s livelihoods and reduce poverty, intended and actual outcomes of developments interventions may differ. Some scholars attribute this variation to ... -
The relationship between HIV and AIDS and water scarcity and variability in the Nyamakate area, Zimbabwe : a political ecology approach.
(2014)There is a dearth of knowledge on how water scarcity and variability and HIV and AIDS concurrently impact on rural people’s livelihoods. Hence, this research seeks to understand the experiences, responses to, and interpretation ... -
The role of rural-urban migration in reinforcing inequality : a theoretical model and a case study of Nkosini, South Africa.
(2000)No abstract available. -
Social exclusion as a barrier to poverty reduction : the case of Basarwa in Botswana.
(2003)In most developing countries the characteristics of the poor go beyond the traditional definition of poverty. Whilst the latter broadly refers to lack of access to material resources, there are other factors that are linked ... -
Sowing the seeds of food sovereignty or cultivating consent? The potential and limitations of Johannesburg’s community gardens.
(2017)This thesis investigates the benefits and challenges of participating in community gardens in Johannesburg. More specifically, it seeks to understand whether and how urban community gardens contribute to food sovereignty, ... -
Sustainable private sector participation in water supply and sanitation : an investigation of the South African experience with international comparative case studies.
(2003)This thesis is a case study investigation of the sustainability of private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on South Africa. It is essentially an ...