Browsing Masters Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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Learning and doing : exploring the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in fostering learning and education amongst youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
(2014)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers an abundance of opportunities for innovation and development in the ways that information is stored, transmitted and received. As such, ICT has the potential to act as ... -
Legislating worker justice : the formalisation of paid domestic work in Maputo, Mozambique.
(2012)Paid domestic work is the most important occupation for urban Mozambican women after self-employment. Domestic workers perform the reproductive and productive functions necessary to keep households running and the economy ... -
Levels of mortality and socioeconomic differentials in child mortality in Lesotho.
(2003)The main purpose of this study was two fold: to estimate mortality levels and to investigate socio-economic differentials in child mortality. Brass Indirect Techniques were used to estimate both child and adult mortality ... -
Levels, patterns and determinants of child malnutrition in Zimbabwe : evidence from the 1988, 1994 and 1999 Zimbabwe demographic and health surveys.
(2006)Child nutrition has become a well accepted marker of a population's health. Consequently, in the past decades it has been common for health surveys to collect anthropometric measurements of children. Cross sectional data ... -
The linkages between informal savings and credit mechanisms (stokvels) and commercial banks.
(2016)In low-income countries such as those found in Africa the financial sector is often divided into two parts; the formal and informal sector. Previously the latter was believed to cater for that segment of the population ... -
Linking land restitution and urban development : lessons for restructuring the apartheid city from the Kipi land claim, Durban Metropolitan area.
(2003)This paper undertakes an indepth study of the Kipi land restitution claim. This study focuses on the nature of the settlement achieved in the case ofthe Kipi land claim and covers the period 1993 to 1999. It compares the ... -
A literature review on the effectiveness of policy networks in alleviating implementation failure : the need for public-civic social capital.
(2003)A literature review has carried out in this thesis in order to find arguments in support of the notion that the public sector cannot effectively act alone in the execution of public policy. This is essentially a reaction ... -
Livelihood strategies of street children in Durban : a participatory, rights-based approach to street-based interventions.
(2007)There are a number of different factors that are increasing the numbers of children on the streets in Durban. These factors include globalisation, macro-economic policy, poverty, and HIV/AIDS. On arrival, these children ... -
The 'managed' co-operative : a case study into the social and economic benefits of participating in rural co-operatives in KwaZulu-Natal.
(1999)The primary goal of development is to alleviate poverty, and thus improve people's lives. Co-operatives around the world are becoming used more regularly as a vehicle for such development. However, as a result of ... -
Measurement and characteristics of single mothers in South Africa : analysis using the 2002 general household survey.
(2006)A single mother is defined as a mother with one or more children, who is neither married nor living with a partner. The second demographic transition characterized by the decline of marital fertility and an increase in ... -
Meeting rural woodfuel and livelihood requirements through contract farming and community forestry in KwaZulu-Natal, 1960-2000.
(2000)Abstract not available. -
Migration into new housing developments : an examination of RDP housing in Northern KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)Objectives. First, the study aims to explore demographic and socio-economic characteristics of residents who moved into Indlovu village. Second, the study will explore if the housing development attracted the intended ... -
Mining for development? : a socio-ecological study on the Witbank coalfield.
(2011)Coal mining on the Highveld has historically served, and continues to serve as an indissoluble cog in South Africa’s development. The study contends that the inherent speculative character of coal as a finite resource ... -
Mobile cell phones and poverty reduction : technology spending patterns and poverty level change among households in Uganda.
(2007)This paper exammes the spending behaviour of households with mobile phones in rural agricultural Uganda and whether such strategies such as substitutions have affected the well-being of these community members. According ... -
Motherhood, marriage and career : some liberal feminist and some ultra orthodox Jewish views.
(1991)A comparison is made between the manner in which motherhood is perceived from a liberal feminist point of view within the patriarchal framework of modern western society, and the way in which it is viewed in ultra-orthodox ... -
Municipal water in South Africa : the relationship between access, quality and childhood diarrhoea.
(2014)Access to drinking water is a basic human right. Water is also a vehicle for the transmission of a number of communicable diseases. To reduce the risk of disease, water accessed must also be of a good quality, from a ... -
The nature of informal clothing manufacturing in a residential area : the case of Chatsworth.
(2003)No abstract available. -
Negotiating healing : the professionalisation of traditional healers in KwaZulu-Natal between 1985 and 2003.
(2003)No abstract available. -
NEPAD, narrative and African integration.
(2009)The untenable inequalities and suffering experienced by Africans blatantly exposes that a lot more than simple developmental ‘lag’, lack of economic ‘growth’, ‘governance’, or a shaky ‘investment climate’ inhibits Africa’s ... -
NGO's, donors and human development : a case study from Mozambique.
(2008)During 1990s, the 'renaissance' of civil society in the Third World and the birth of thousands ofNGOs provoked a debate about their critical role, linked to the end of the Cold War and the 'triumph' of the Westernized, ...