This dissertation is an exploratory study of the ideas put forward by theorists of post-Development. This current of thought emerged as a radical critique of the Development discourse, proclaiming that no reformulation ...
A distressing consequence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and of the increasing numbers of orphans and decreasing numbers of caregivers is the emergence in ever larger numbers of child-headed households (CHHs). The complexity of ...
This study was undertaken to explore the barriers to the sustainability of the spaza shops in Atteridgeville (wards, 51, 62, 63, 68, 71 and 72) and to identify the support strategies necessary to assist these shops to grow ...
The study investigates issues of housing faced by the community of Josefa. It assesses
the impact of housing crisis in this township of Soweto, Josefa, South Africa. It is being
conducted against the background of the ...
This study investigates the factors affecting agricultural production of farm households in the National Regional State of Tigray, Ethiopia. The major primary sources of data for the study were farm household surveys, focus ...
This study investigates factors that influence business performance of home-based enterprises in
South Africa. There is a wide debate in literature about failure of spaza shops run by South
Africans, while those run ...
Rural Ethiopia rolled-out a program for the establishment of farmers’ collective action groups known as ‘Farmers’ Development Groups’ (FDGs), in 2007, based on presumed common interest of smallholder farmers. Although the ...
This study is focused on the topical issue of female poverty in South Africa. Specifically, the study is on how poverty has single mothers households in reception area of Diepsloot informal settlements and how they have ...
Poverty as it concerns women is often approached in terms of the three contributing
factors that have been underscored in the women-in-development and gender-and development (WID/GAD) literature: (1) the growth of ...
This study introduces the Fanonian thought on race and racism, rhetoric of modernity, and new humanism as three constitutive thematic areas in order to enable a new understanding of the South African situation. These ...
Strengthening civil society participation in development is a prerequisite to enhance access to opportunities and political influence by the poor. An active civil society can improve development accountability. In fact, ...
This study is about the gender dimensions of land reform in South Africa. The case study is that of a housing and resettlement project in Daggakraal, Mpumalanga Province. The aim of the study was to describe and analyse ...
The need to carry out an analysis of gender issues in development stems from a concern about the persistent inequalities surrounding African rural women. Women assume social and economic roles inside and outside the household ...
This thesis investigates gender relations in agricultural value chains by examining gender differentials in terms of gender roles in agricultural production and marketing, gender division of labour within the household, ...
The central objective of this dissertation is to gain an understanding of the effect by the market within the household on a specific developmental initiative whose aim was poverty reduction. This dissertation analyses how ...
Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, with most of its population living in rural areas. The study analysed the impact of trade liberalization on peasant farmers
involved in fruit production in Marera ...
This dissertation draws on the perceptions of government officials and residents to investigate the response of government to the effects of increases in population on the provision of housing in Freedom Park, Soweto. The ...
Several empirical studies have concluded that gender equality is a crucial ingredient for
development. Gendered higher education institutions play an important role in this
respect. The research problem that this ...