The objective of this research was to establish if Zimbabwe has the potential and Information Communication Technology (ICT) capacity implement e-voting methods in country's often discredited electoral process. study adopted qualitative secondary data collected from relevant reports, questionnaires randomly distributed general populace as well interviews with Electoral Commission (ZEC) Postal T...

E-Government activities are still very low in Nigeria, a lower middle-income country, and this is hindering E-Service adoption. E-Service is inextricably linked to E-Government and they will not develop separately, but as one progresses the other moves forward. Having a new technology like E-service opens new opportunities for government, private and public sectors. Despite the fact that the ne...

Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK, Laboratoire d’Immunologie, et Unité Inserm 932, InsermCIC-BT507 IGR/Curie, Institut Curie, 75005 Paris, France, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, INSERM U 1...

Surface water is one of the constraining resources for herbivore populations in semi-arid regions. Artificial waterpoints are constructed by wildlife managers to supplement natural water supplies, to support herbivore populations. The aim of this paper is to analyse how a landowner may realize his ecological and economic goals by manipulating waterpoints for the management of an elephant popula...

The main purpose of the study was to evaluate direct and indirect effects that owner/manager demographic attributes firm characteristics have on relationship between religiosity two dependent variables, cost accounting management in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) subsistence economies. Self-administered survey used draw responses from 100 SMEs Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe. To facilitate analy...

This paper discusses the challenges, difficulties and problems faced by humanitarian organisations in running logistics systems Worldwide in Africa and particularly in Southern Africa, with a focus on some systems in Zimbabwe. Mini-case studies of the operations of the World Food Programme, the International Red Cross Society and the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society, the World Health Organisation, th...

SOUTHERN AFRICA “In a little town not far from where I live, children suck salt to make themselves thirsty. Their thirst makes them drink more water and this fills their stomachs and helps to suppress the hunger in their bellies. It is almost beyond belief that three years ago Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa” (excerpt from Zimbabwean farmer, Cathy Buckle’s online journal, 22 Febru...

This article analyses the impact of the rinderpest animal disease outbreak on human populations in early colonial Zimbabwe. It is informed by the realisation that, while animal diseases may not infect human beings directly, they may cause untold damage to both the health and the economy of human beings and influence human institutions and policies in a variety of ways. By using the rinderpest p...

This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations, including the role of political institutions, the specifics of legislative and budgetary autonomy, assignments of expenditure responsibility and revenue authority, revenue collection...

This paper highlights how information dissemination or information sharing between the authority (in this case, is the Inland Revenue Board Malaysia IRBM) and the community at large would to certain extent influence their perceptions on the fairness of the income tax system. Specifically, this paper investigates perceptions of individual taxpayers on the fairness of the income tax system in Mal...