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Building and urban planning in Zimbabwe with special reference to Harare: Putting needs, costs and sustainability in focus
(Columbia University, 2014)
This article examines construction and its relationship with urban
planning in Zimbabwe. Urban planning has been blamed for making the
building process cumbersome, thereby raising transaction costs. Such
transaction ...
NYIKA VANHU: THE LAND IS THE PEOPLE: An Examination of Natural Resource Management in Zimbabwe’s Communal Lands
(2012-07-30)
It is generally agreed that for the sustainable management of natural resources to be effective a degree of de-centralisation to local level is an essential requirement. This simple axiom conceals a multitude of conflicting ...
Factors Affecting the Emergency Management and Treatment of Aggressive and Violent
(2013-11-21)
Violence by inpatients against mental health personnel, fellow patients and people uninvolved in the patient’s treatment is a common and universal problem requiring urgent attention. The current study sought to investigate ...
Irregular repeat migration among unaccompanied children in Plumtree
(2017-06)
The number of repeat irregular child migrants has been on the increase since the turn of the
century. These children leave their homes to migrate into neighboring Botswana without legal
travel documents through undesignated ...
An empirical investigation of foreign aid effectiveness in reducing poverty in some selected SADC countries: 2005-2013
(2017-06)
Historically, aid flows from the developed to developing countries have been economically
justified for reducing poverty either through directly targeting the poor or indirectly via
economic growth. This present study ...
An assessment of the role of spatial planning in the promotion of small and medium enterprises in small urban centres: Case of Shamva and Mazowe districts
(2016-10)
This study examined the role of spatial planning in the promotion of small and medium enterprises (commonly abbreviated SMEs) in small urban centres. Specifically the study intended to (i) Assess the role of spatial planning ...
Examining the twin deficit hypothesis: Evidence from selected SADC countries (1980-2011)
(2016)
The dissertation investigates the existence of a causal relationship between fiscal balance and
current account balance over the period 1980-2011, for nine SADC countries individually. The
analysis is conducted within ...
The Reality of Realpolitik: The Trajectory of the Negotiation Process to the Zimbabwean Global Political Agreement (GPA)
(2013-11-15)
In the last two decades, there is no country in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region that has managed to consistently grab the international attention better than Zimbabwe. At the centre of this attention ...
THE EXTERNAL DEBT MANAGEMENT PROBLEM: THE CASE OF ZIMBABWE (2000 – 2012).
(2013-11-21)
This research reflects on the debt management problem in Zimbabwe. Like any other country Zimbabwe has a Constitutional legal framework that touches on debt management. The major issue at hand is why Zimbabwe is failing ...
Sexual and reproductive health issues among HIV positive adolescents in Gweru rural district
(2018)
The Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) needs of adolescents have been largely
ignored to date by existing reproductive health services. Adolescents Living with HIV
(ALHIV) face twin challenges of adolescence in general ...