17 research outputs found
Exchange rate policy and the auction system in Zambia, 1985 - 1987
No full textMeeting: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Workshop, 27-31 May 1990, Nairobi, K
"All of the problems of poverty are brought because of being disabled": Particularities of poverty experienced by persons with disabilities in Western Province
No full textBACKGROUND: In qualitative research about the lived experience of disability in Western Province in Zambia, persons with disabilities spoke frequently and emphatically about poverty. This is unsurprising as this province is consistently identified as having high levels of poverty. However, in the participants’ narratives, it was striking that poverty was often presented as a condition experienced exclusively by persons with disabilities. This finding creates a dilemma for efforts to address poverty among persons with disabilities: should their poverty be thought of as distinct from, or similar to, the poverty experienced by persons without disabilities? Purpose: To explore how these people with disabilities discussed poverty, with particular attention to narratives that are particular to persons with disabilities and those that could be common to persons with and without disabilities. METHODS: This study was a secondary analysis of data generated for a constructionist qualitative research project. The participants were 81 persons with diverse forms of disability from an urban and a rural community in Western Province. Data were generated through eight focus group discussions and 39 interviews. In the primary analysis, emergent nodes were derived from the transcribed data using NVivo 10. Nodes related to poverty were reviewed through the secondary data analysis to address the study purpose. RESULTS: The secondary analysis identified multiple aspects of the experience of poverty that were particular to the situation of these persons with disabilities. These aspects included those where a disability reduced the ability to acquire resources through loans, income, or physical tasks. There were also increased expenses related to disability, such as paying for things that others just do, or the costs to mothers with disabilities to raising children after being abandoned by their husbands. Other aspects of the experience of poverty were not clearly traced to disability. Examples of these included restricted access to starter capital for small business ventures and cost barriers to education and skills training. CONCLUSIONS: This study helps to inform a “twin-track approach” to poverty alleviation and development. The aspects of the poverty experience that are particular to persons with disabilities are potential targets for disability-specific action. Other aspects could be common to the experience of poverty for persons with and without disabilities and therefore opportunities for persons with disabilities to seek inclusion into the mainstream movements
An analysis of a low income housing market in urban Zambia
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Economics, 1983Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-174
Transfer Mispricing in Africa: Contextual Issues
No full textTransfer pricing is a significant tax issue and lies at the core of international trade and globalisation. This brief raises contextual issues and challenges surrounding the experience of transfer mispricing in Africa. The brief comes at a time when African countries have consistently exhibited high real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates in the past two decades, and increased FDI inflows and technological upgrades have aided their high participation in global trade. Despite the profitability of MNEs operations in Africa, the investing firms are paying less in terms of tax. This has created a problem for African countries to raise their revenue base for financing development and poverty reduction programmes. Therefore it is important for Africa to stay abreast with transfer pricing rules and issues worldwide. The brief recommends the way forward for African countries in developing capacity to understand and resolve transfer pricing issues and disputes
The Tragedy and Reliability of Zambian Trade Data
No full textTrade is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction. Yet trade data suffers from poor quality and inconsistencies. There are several reasons for this: trade data is collected with little coordination between the reporting agencies and the central statistical offices, inadequate resources located to the data gathering agencies undermines archival process of good data, normal statistical errors of measurement and observation, and various complexities associated with international trade such as trade misinvoicing. This study explored the poor quality and inconsistencies in Zambian trade data which might render efforts at policy formulation to boost intra-regional trade and resolve issues of growth and poverty intractable. The study computed an index to depict the extent of trade misinvoicing and hence the quality of Zambia’s trade statistics in comparison with other African countries. The study documented the tendency to over-invoice exports and under-invoice imports. This is of great concern; particularly in the trade liberalisation era where the need for high quality trade data to inform constantly evolving regional and continental trade arrangements is more urgent than ever. Plausible interventions include, but are not limited to: increasing intra-country coordination between statistical and other data reporting agencies, increasing collaboration between local and partner country level data collection agencies, and encouraging open collaboration between data collection agencies and users. __________________________________________________________________________
Globalization and Exchange Rate Pass Through: Evidence from Zambia
No full textThis study examines the impact of globalisation on the exchange rate pass through in Zambia. We study the influence of Chinese imports, regional and multilateral globalization on exchange rate pass through to consumer prices in Zambia between 2006 and 2017. We employ a combination of the pricing to market model and vector error correction model (VECM) to achieve the objective. The results from the study show that Chinese presence and multilateral globalisation have a positive effect on the exchange rate pass through to consumer prices in both the short and long run. However, the effect of Chinese presence on the exchange rate pass through is greater than that of multilateral globalisation. This is both in the short and long run. On the other hand, regional globalization has a negative effect on the exchange rate pass through to consumer prices in both the short and long run. This could be because regional globalization may be characterized by cross border trade in local currencies in the region. This might have a diminishing effect on exchange rate pass through to prices in Zambia. This signals to policy makers that there could be need to pursue regional integration policies
The Tragedy and Reliability of Zambian Trade Data
No full textTrade is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction. Yet trade data suffers from poor quality and inconsistencies. There are several reasons for this: trade data is collected with little coordination between the reporting agencies and the central statistical offices, inadequate resources located to the data gathering agencies undermines archival process of good data, normal statistical errors of measurement and observation, and various complexities associated with international trade such as trade misinvoicing. This study explored the poor quality and inconsistencies in Zambian trade data which might render efforts at policy formulation to boost intra-regional trade and resolve issues of growth and poverty intractable. The study computed an index to depict the extent of trade misinvoicing and hence the quality of Zambia’s trade statistics in comparison with other African countries. The study documented the tendency to over-invoice exports and under-invoice imports. This is of great concern; particularly in the trade liberalisation era where the need for high quality trade data to inform constantly evolving regional and continental trade arrangements is more urgent than ever. Plausible interventions include, but are not limited to: increasing intra-country coordination between statistical and other data reporting agencies, increasing collaboration between local and partner country level data collection agencies, and encouraging open collaboration between data collection agencies and users. __________________________________________________________________________
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The Tragedy and Reliability of Zambian Trade Data
No full textTrade is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction. Yet trade data suffers from poor quality and inconsistencies. There are several reasons for this: trade data is collected with little coordination between the reporting agencies and the central statistical offices, inadequate resources located to the data gathering agencies undermines archival process of good data, normal statistical errors of measurement and observation, and various complexities associated with international trade such as trade misinvoicing. This study explored the poor quality and inconsistencies in Zambian trade data which might render efforts at policy formulation to boost intra-regional trade and resolve issues of growth and poverty intractable. The study computed an index to depict the extent of trade misinvoicing and hence the quality of Zambia’s trade statistics in comparison with other African countries. The study documented the tendency to over-invoice exports and under-invoice imports. This is of great concern; particularly in the trade liberalisation era where the need for high quality trade data to inform constantly evolving regional and continental trade arrangements is more urgent than ever. Plausible interventions include, but are not limited to: increasing intra-country coordination between statistical and other data reporting agencies, increasing collaboration between local and partner country level data collection agencies, and encouraging open collaboration between data collection agencies and users. __________________________________________________________________________
