Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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Civil society, dams and underdevelopment of the Democratic Republic of Congo : a study of communities affected by the Inga Hydropower Projects.
(2015)This research examines development aid, development agencies, international financial institutions, successive governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Congolese civil society organisations as well as their ... -
Community-based activism and local content development: the case of platinum mining communities in Zimbabwe.
(2020)Through examination of community-based activism on local content development (LCD), the study considers the applicability of the “double movement” theory of Karl Polanyi (1944) against the ongoing neoliberal agenda favoured ... -
Corporate social responsibility, community participation and development in mining sector of North-Western Tanzania.
(2021)The study on which this thesis is based investigated the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR), community participation and development in the mining sector of North-western Tanzania and focused on Geita Gold ... -
Decentralisation and municipalities in South Africa : an analysis of the mandate to deliver basic services.
(2009)This thesis investigates the challenges facing local government in South Africa by developing a means of exploring to what extent the problems of providing basic services currently experienced by municipalities are influenced ... -
Developing a poverty index for African economies using the consensual approach : the case of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.
(2008)This thesis is articles-based submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It consists of articles that were submitted and published, and others that were submitted and awaiting ... -
Exploring the challenges of implementing the rights-based approach to development : the case of the right to water in peri-urban Zambia.
(2007)Water is an essential element of life. On average, 60 to 70 percent of a human body mass is water . In order to perform its functions properly, it is estimated that a human body needs about 2 to 3 litres of clean water per ... -
The feminisation of poverty and female headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2006.
(2011)A large and growing body of scholarship has suggested that income poverty has recently decreased in post-apartheid South Africa. Evidence for an overall drop in poverty rates notwithstanding, there has been very little ... -
Gender equality in the higher education arena : a public policy perspective.
(2004)International research has shown conclusively that the struggle for employment equity and gender equality is a major challenge to both the private and the public sectors. In South Africa, with the legacy of colonialism ... -
Governance and service delivery a case-study of sanitation in Inanda, Durban.
(2012)The sanitation crisis is a growing pandemic in most developing countries, globally, including in South Africa. It is exacerbated by increasing urbanization, poverty, lack of political will, poor institutional response ... -
An historical analysis of changes in the population patterns of Indian South Africans : 1860-1991.
(2002)This study examines the quantitative aspects of the demographic characteristics of the Indian population of South Africa over a period of one-hundred-and-thirty years, from 1860 to 1991, within the framework of demographic ... -
Idioms of accumulation : socio-economic development in an African freehold farming area in Rhodesia.
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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 ...