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Aspirations and human development interventions
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)What role can aspirations play in small-scale human development interventions? In this paper, we contribute to answering that question with both conceptual and empirical work. Aspirations can play at least two roles in ... -
Beyond entrepreneurship education: business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities
(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE – As a way of dealing with Nigeria’s macroeconomic challenge of unemployment and its concomitant socio-economic problems, the federal government, in 2006, made entrepreneurship study a compulsory course for all ... -
Can deliberate efforts to realise aspirations increase capabilities? A South African case study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper takes up Appadurai's suggestion that aspirations could be used as a key to unlock development for people who are economically marginalised, and that their capabilities could be increased by this approach. The ... -
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of children who ... -
Child rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call for a right-based global research agenda
(University of Stellenbosch, 2013)Despite many achievements regarding child rights over the last 20 years, including improvements in many indicators such as the significant reduction in infant and child mortality; the more positive way of thinking about ... -
Evaluating outcomes from stakeholders’ perception: Evidence from an irrigation project in Nigeria
(University for Development Studies, Ghana, 2016)The need for the appreciation of values and knowledge diversity has contributed to the increasing relevance of stakeholder participation in the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development projects. Using mixed methods ... -
From the RDP to the NDP: A critical appraisal of the developmental state, land reform, and rural development in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)After decades of neoliberal rule in which market forces held pre-eminence in shaping development, there has in recent years been a resurgence of an activist developmental state in promoting economic development and tackling ... -
Growing and eating food during the COVID-19 pandemic: Farmers’ perspectives on local food system resilience to shocks in Southern Africa and Indonesia
(MDPI, 2020)The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments to make decisions that had adverse effects on local food systems and supply chains. As a result, many small-scale food producers faced difficulties growing, harvesting, and selling ... -
Macroeconomic immigration determinants: An analysis of ‘pull’ factors of international migration to South Africa
(SIHMA, 2015)This research empirically examines the macroeconomic determinants of ‘pull’ factors of international migration in South Africa. Using the neoclassical economic model of international migration, an Ordinary Least Square ... -
Multi-donor trust funds and fragile states: assessing the aid effectiveness of the Zimbabwe multi-donor trust fund
(Wiley, 2016)It is widely acknowledged that multi-donor trust funds (MDTFs) contribute to aid effectiveness. This paper challenges this assertion through assessing the aid effectiveness of the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund. The paper ... -
Politics and the practice of planning: the case of Zimbabwean cities
(Elsevier, 2016)Planning is intrinsically a political process. This paper explores how the practice and profession of planning has been affected by politics. Available evidence in Zimbabwe shows that planning is problematized by unsettled ... -
Politics, centralisation and service delivery in urban Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ... -
Role of development communication in fostering social change: evidence from Lesotho
(KRE Publishers, 2013)A number of programmes have been implemented in the field of development communication with the specific aim of promoting social change among communities. Series of studies have also illustrated the positive effects of ... -
Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(Nutrients, 2019)Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through intra-annual fluctuations in ... -
Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?
(Food Security, 2019)Large numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do ... -
Telecentre functionality in South Africa: re-enabling the community ICT access environment
(Journal of Community Informatics, 2013)Despite the availability and capabilities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in low and middle-income countries, the use of these constantly evolving tools remains limited for the majority of resource-poor ... -
Towards low‐cost community networks in rural communities: The impact of context using the case study of Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
(Wiley, 2018)Most rural communities in developing countries such as Zimbabwe are underserved and/or unserved with regard to telecommunication connectivity. Governments in developing countries are also under‐resourced to provide adequate ... -
Violations of farm workers’ labour rights in postapartheid South Africa
(Development Southern Africa, 2019)Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of exploitation and abuse until the 1990s, when progressive legislation was promulgated that confers rights to workers aimed at improving their living and working ... -
‘We create our own small world’: daily realities of mothers of disabled children in a South African urban settlement
(Routledge, 2019)Parents of disabled children face many challenges. Understanding their experiences and acknowledging contextual influences is vital in developing intervention strategies that fit their daily realities. However, studies ...
