ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate on donor funding on the performance of Goal Zimbabwe. The study was prompted by the noted decrease in funds, decrease in donors and increasing administration costs during the period 2012 to 2015. The research explored a body of literature for a further exhaustive knowledge of donor funding policies that the company may adopt to solicit funds and ensure survival as the industry is now characterized with great competition. The research conducted a census...
ABSTRACT The research aims at investigating the effects of urban sprawl on spatial planning. Many Local authorities in Zimbabwe are suffering the consequences of urban sprawls and illegal settlements. These consequences vary from being environmental, social, political or economic. The research will undertake a literature review of the wider topic and identifies a number of aspects that are likely to affect spatial planning. Information is obtained from Chitungwiza Municipality, a Local Author...
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to make an analysis into the effects of downsizing as a measure of cost containment on company performance and to make relevant suggestions to mitigate the shortfalls. Forty-two questionnaires and five interviews were used as data collection instruments necessary for collection of data. Primary and secondary sources were both used to obtain data. The use of literature as well as findings obtained from data collected revealed that downsizing in most cases ...
ABSTRACT The process of globalization has permeated every sphere of human activity, most notably in the arena of economic globalization. Economic globalization encompasses the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows and migration. The benefits of globalization are numerous such as foreign direct investments and portfolio flows that engender accelerated economic growth both in the advanced and the emerging economi...
ABSTRACT Since Zimbabwe’s political independence in 1980, the government has been making efforts of trying to raise the living standards of the young people through various means. However, because of a variety of challenges and other factors like colonial policies, national divisions, illiteracy, selfishness and a poorly performing economy amongst others, unemployment has continued to affect the youths in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe youth constitute a large percentage of the population but they w...
ABSTRACT Fasciolosis is a zoonotic disease of economic importance caused fasciola speciesand intermediate host Lymnaeid natalensis. The research aims to bring awareness to the farmers on the economic effects of fasciolosis in the beef production as well as its economic effects to the public health .A study to investigate the prevalence of fasciolosis and its associated risk factors was carried out at Koala park abattoir in Chiredzi district Zimbabwe. A total of 20553 cattle were delivered at ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to examine the psychological and social predictors of burnout among nurses employed at the public hospital in Gweru, Zimbabwe. The primary aim was to determine the relationship between occupational and demographic stress factors and burnout levels among nurses. Burnout is defined with the human service as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment that occurs among individuals who work with people in some...
vii ABSTRACT Knowledge on the long run connection between tax revenues and government expenditures are of huge significance for both fiscal and monetary arrangement in developing nation such as Zimbabwe. Two testable hypothesis were investigated which are: does tax revenue Granger-cause government expenditure and does government expenditure Granger-cause tax revenue. The impact of the two hypothesis were researched in the context of the Zimbabwean economy using time series monthly data that r...
ABSTRACT The research sought to assess contribution of Internal Savings and Lending Schemes (ISALS) on household livelihoods in Bikita district. Rural people are known to have inferior livelihoods and they are facing the problem of reduced household livelihoods strategies and they cannot access basic facilities and services .Therefore; ISALS have been used as household livelihoods strategy on poverty eradication in many countries. The main objectives of this study were to examine the role pla...
ABSTRACT This research seeks to investigate the viability of tax e-services in ensuring tax compliance and increased tax revenue collection using ZIMRA Harare branch at Kurima house as a case study. Some researchers were of the view that tax e-services plays a pivotal role in enhancing tax compliance and increase tax revenue collection. However, others argued that there is a negative association between tax e-filing and tax compliance and that revenue collection is influenced by other factors...
Abstract The main purpose of the study was to examine the role played by National Energy Workers Union of Zimbabwe (NEWUZ) which is a Trade Union, in Restoring and Improving the Workers Rights and Conditions which had been eroded during the economic meltdown that ravaged the country between 2007 and 2008. The objectives of the study were to establish what rights and conditions existed before the economic meltdown , how the economic meltdown affected the workers rights and conditions and the i...
ABSTRACT The practice of strategy implementation has been important especially to public sector organizations in Zimbabwe as they complement government national policies and for key survival for government Ministries. Though a lot has been written about strategy implementation focusing on other organizations locally, regional, and international quite a few has been looked at about strategy implementation in Zimbabwe public sector. In this case this has made the researcher to research about st...
ABSTRACT The drive of this research was to examine how the China and Zimbabwe has engaged with each other in the colonial and post-colonial period. The Sino Zim relations have their merits and demerits evidenced by the indicators of their relationship trend where politically there is technical and moral support, elections and diplomacy, economically there is trade, agriculture, investment, aid and socially there are cultural exchanges evidenced by the use of soft power and there is also the a...
ABSTRACT The most crucial challenge of nationhood which confronts Nigeria is how to transit from the state of mere ground rent collector from transnational oil companies who dominate the nation‟s extractive industry, to a modern State economy in which there is a reciprocal linkage between the extractive industry and the non-extractive sectors of the economy, such as manufacturing and agriculture. Oil remains the linchpin of the Nigerian economy and since its ascendancy in the 70s as the maj...
ABSTRACT The research was undertaken to ascertain the effectiveness of the RBM system in enhancing quality education service delivery. This study was motivated by a decline in public confidence, inconsistent results in terms of pass rate and quality of passes, poor performance in core-curricular activities at Matinunura High School and the institution stands to benefit from the effective implementation of the Result Based Management. The purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness...