Department of Development Studies

Few earlier reviews on emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in drinking water systems (DWS) focused on their
detection, behaviour, removal and fate. Reviews on multiple exposure pathways, human intake estimates, and
health risks including…

The desktop study is on poverty and underdevelopment, which continues to be a matter of concern in the
developing world. According to Chen and Ravallion (2008), about 1.4 billion people (one in four) lived
on less than $1.25 a day in 2005. The…

What is Government in Political Science? What precisely does it cover? These are some of the
questions that spring to the mind of thee student faced with a choice of study at the university or college in the
social and humanistic sciences.…

The DHS program has conducted nationally-representative surveys worldwide, including Africa, since the mid-1980s.
The data are open access and provide a rich resource for policymakers and scholars alike; however there has never
been a special issue…

This descriptive survey was conducted to establish the quality of service offered by the ZOU staff at the regional centres. A total of 325 respondents drawn from the ten regional centres of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU), responded to…

The paper analyses Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) as a social policy instrument. Mupfurudzi Farm in Shamva district was used as a case study. Five tasks of the Transformative Social Policy Framework (TSPF) were analysed in a…