and lower teaching quality when in class. The authors document that health problems-primarily teachers' own illness and … are unable to substitute adequately for teaching inputs. Excess teaching capacity that allows for the greater use of …

household level. Using a unique data set from Zambia, the author shows that whether these conditions are met depends on the …

This paper analyzes the distributional effect of public spending in Zambia using the most recent data from the 2010 … education spending in Zambia is neither pro-poor nor progressive, but while this is true for the system as a whole it is not …

important effect on transport costs and tariffs for Zambia's economy. Zambia is a peculiar example in Southern Africa as it … competition between Zambian and other regional, mainly South African, operators and because of South African investments in Zambia …'s trucking industry. As a result, the costs of operators registered in Zambia and South Africa are similar. The study also …

The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the … least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards, but the pattern of migration is … skewed toward the skilled and away from the unskilled. A development-friendly approach to migration for Zambia would strive …

This report assesses the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using the Ricardian method. A …, soil, and socioeconomic variables as explanatory variables. There is one main cropping season in Zambia, lasting from …

alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …

Despite the deep financial sector reforms undertaken in Zambia in the early 1990s, the expected benefits of … access to credit in 2006. Moreover, less than 8 percent of Zambia's adult population had a bank account in 2005. And despite … the open door policy to foreign financial institutions, which has been in place since Zambia's independence, only a few …