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Zimbabwe : industrial and commercial energy use

Upphovsperson: Hosier, Richard H.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1988
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Energy consumption, Energy supply, Industrial sector, Transport, Trade, Informal sector, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The papers published in this book represent the collective and individual thoughts of the working group on commercial and industrial energy use of the Zimbabwe Energy Accouting Project (ZEAP) and the Ministry of Water and Energy Resources and Development of the Government of Zimbabwe. The first paper is a concept paper and it represents an attempt to sketch out the remainder of the ZEAP in the areas of commercial, industrial, and urban energy use. The next three papers present findings of surveys of energy use patterns in the formal industrial, the transport, and the infromal industrial sectors of the economy. The final two papers represent formal models which were developed for the analysis undertaken as part of the ZEAP.

Health and structural adjustment in rural and urban Zimbabwe

Upphovspersoner: Bijlmakers, Leon A. | Basset, Mary T. | Sanders, David M.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Health, Health services, , SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report attempts to intervene in the discussion on the social effects of structural adjustment through an empirically-based assessment of the impact of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) of the Zimbabwean state on the country's health sector. The author's conclude that ESAP has resulted in a serious degradation of the poor in Zimbabwe, and an overall decline in the health status of the working poor, which the Social Dimensions Fund has failed to mitigate.

Structural adjustment and women informal sector traders in Harare, Zimbabwe

Upphovspersoner: Mupedziswa, Rodreck | Gumbo, Perpetua
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1998
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Informal sector, Trade, Women, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report documents patterns of differentiation within the informal sector amidst the decline in working and living conditions associated with the structural adjustment programme, and shows that in the era of adjustment, the informal sector, far from being a site of accumulation, is a site of bare survival.

Socioeconomic stress, health and child nutritional status in Zimbabwe at a time of economic structural adjustment : a three-year longitudinal study

Upphovspersoner: Bijlmakers, Leon A. | Basset, Mary T. | Sanders, David M.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1998
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Child health, Child nutrition, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report intervenes in the debate on the implications of structural adjustment for the social sector in Africa. It finds a strong association between structural adjustment implementation and a sharp deterioration both in the household economy and in the health status of the working poor in urban and rural Zimbabwe.

Seeds for African peasants : peasants' needs and agricultural research - the case of Zimbabwe

Upphovsperson: Friis-Hansen, Esbern
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1995
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Agriculture, Plant breeding, Seeds, Farming systems, Agricultural policy, Economic and social development, Sustainable development, Agricultural development, Agricultural research, Maps, Plant production, Växtproduktion
The book provides a comprehensive discussion about the role of agricultural seed in sustainable peasant agriculture and concludes by presenting new principles for sustainable poverty-oriented plant breeding.

Energy for rural development in Zimbabwe

Upphovsperson: Hosier, Richard H.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; The Beijer Institute
År: 1988
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Energy supply, Energy consumption, Agricultural sector, Household, Fuelwood, Rural development, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The studies presented in this volume were originally carried out as part of the Zimbabwe Energy Accounting Project (ZEAP). The ZEAP was a joint undertaking between the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Water and Energy Resources and Development of the Republic of Zimbabwe. This volume focuses on one of the objectives of the Project: To examine rural energy problems in general, and the woodfuel problem in particular.

Women informal traders in Harare and the struggle for survival in an environment of economic reforms

Upphovspersoner: Mupedziswa, Rodreck | Gumbo, Perpetua
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2001
Ämnesord: Structural adjustment, Informal sector, trade, Women, Household consumption, Survival strategies, Zimbabwe, Harare, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report summarises the results of the fourth and final round of interviews carried out among informal sector women traders in Harare, Zimbabwe as part of a longitudinal study of their conditions of work and livelihood in the context of economic crisis and structural adjustment. The evidence which was available from the interview points to a deepening social crisis in Zimbabwe as attested to by the increasing crisis of subsistence and livelihood among the overwhelming majorette of the informal sector workers. Far from being the terrain where sections of the populace might be able to find economic liberation, the informal sector is, in fact characterised by serious internal differentiation, very low incomes, and an over-saturation that results in the inability of the women survey to do anything other than struggle at the margins for basic survival.

Zimbabwe - the political economy of decline

Upphovspersoner: Dansereau, Suzanne | Zamponi, Mario | Melber, Henning
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2005
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, political development, Economic and social development, economic aspects, social aspects, cultural aspects., SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The two articles are revised versions of papers presented at the end of May 2004 to a Zimbabwe Conference at the Nordic Africa Institute, which was co-organised by the project "Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa" (LiDeSA). They highlight current socio-economic aspects of Zimbabwean society. By doing so, they raise relevant issues, yet ones that have tended to be neglected given the almost exclusive concentration on political events. While this is understandable, the articles fill the gap in our knowledge and add insights into important sectors of society. These include information on the Zimbabwean economy and the present constraints of the decline, which together help us to understand the structural legacy that any future government will have to deal with. What is more, the elections in Zimbabwe in 2005 provide an ideal moment to discuss such matters. This Discussion Paper will thereby make a substantive contribution to the analysis of the overall picture in Zimbabwe. CONTENT Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Zimbabwe's Development Impasse. Suzanne Dansereau From Social Justice, to Neo-liberalism, to Authoritarian Nationalism - Where is the Zimbabwean State going? Mario Zamponi

Media, public discourse and political contestation in Zimbabwe

Upphovsperson: Melber, Henning
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2004
Ämnesord: Civil rights, Freedom of information, Journalism, Mass media, political development, Press, Zimbabwe, Political science, Statsvetenskap
The current situation in Zimbabwe under the ZANU-PF government shows increasing signs of abuse of power by those in political control. They also direct their desire to suppress criticism towards the media. Press organs in private ownership have been closed down and journalists have been physically harassed, arrested and expelled. Laws are abused to regulate and manipulate public opinion by a policy of banning. Worldwide condemnation of the growing restrictions upon the freedom of expression goes hand in hand with the protests inside the country against the growing tendencies of totalitarian rule. Current events are critically reflected upon and the background to these developments is summarised in this publication. It is based on some of the contributions to a recent conference on Zimbabwe organised by the Nordic Africa Institute and offers insights into the contested space of public opinion in Zimbabwe. The critical analyses of current developments are there-by complemented with particular reference to the media sector in the ongoing battle for hegemonic control over the public sphere.

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