of issues from an Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (see www.equinet.org.zw). Compiled by Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe with NIDR Botswana, Medical School Zimbabwe, Centre for Health Policy, South Africa, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Blair Research Lab, Zimbabwe. Hara...

Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has argued that the use of third party information to verify taxpayer self-reports is critical for tax enforcement and the growth of state capacity. However, there may be limits to the effectiveness of third party information if taxpayers can substitute misreporting to less ve...

In a two-stage supply chain composed of a supplier and a retailer, the supply chain models under a fuzzy environment are researched. The parameters of market demand function, the costs of the supplier and retailer are treated as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The decision processes are analyzed under the decentralized and centralized decision, and the decision model with revenue sharing contract is...

This paper discusses the influence of time inconsistency problem on technology-leading firms' choice between in-house production and technology transfer. Because of incredibility of innovator's commitment of not exporting after licensing, she may not be able to extract rent from licensing as much as when she could commit credibly. Facing this distortion, she chooses in-house production when the...

The objective of this study was to investigate the population structure of village chickens found in the five agro-ecological zones of Zimbabwe. Twenty-nine microsatellites were genotyped for chickens randomly selected from 13 populations, including the five eco-zones of Zimbabwe (n = 238), Malawi (n = 60), Sudan (n = 48) and six purebred lines (n = 180). A total of 280 alleles were observed in...

This study unpacks the role played by government authorities in stimulating citizen participation local development. Citizen participation, being core to sustainable development, has been of interest among development practitioners and scholars alike, with varying degrees attention its scope how can actually occur. One observed trends is critical both national authorities. Development planning ...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Snakebite admissions in Zimbabwe: Pattern, clinical presentation and managment......................................... D Tagwireyi, DE Ball, CFB Nhachi.................................. 17 The effects of hospitalization on the sleep patterns of patients aged 2030 years old admitted at a central Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe...................................... HV Gundani, K M...

This paper was published in June 2003 as a chapter in: Roth, Michael, and Gonese, Francis eds. 2003. Delivering Land and Securing Rural Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe. 2 Harare and Madison: Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, and Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.wisc.edu/ltc/zimbabwe/zimbooktoc.html ...