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In 2008, the Government of Zambia reformed its mining tax regime for large-scale copper mines through a unilateral … the mining tax regimes since independence and calculate effective tax rates and the fiscal sharing between government and … companies. Empirical evidence shows the 2008 mining tax regime as being both understandable and justifiable from an economic …
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in production, processing, and exports in the fruit and oilseed-to-edible oils value chains in the context of recent … underlying productive capabilities in agriculture and food processing, which provide the potential to drive substantial recovery …
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copper essentially at international prices. In any case, the South African capital goods industry is centred on mining, not …Southern African countries-mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo-account for around a seventh of … global production of copper. In the 2010s, they imported over a third of the associated capital goods and components from …
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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative … drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy … which such transfers become integrated within Zambia's distributional regime. …
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introduction of mandatory blending rates in 2014. Land and water constraints, however, limit domestic supply ability. Zambia, due … socio-economic impacts of bioethanol production in Zambia under both commercial and smallholder farming models, including …
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Given unsuccessful experiences to date in establishing large-scale investments for biofuels in Zambia, this paper …
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Expansion of biofuels production and consumption at the regional and national levels relies on both supportive energy prices and policy interventions. Despite enthusiasm for policy interventions to stimulate biofuel production in Southern African countries in the mid-2000s, the years since have...
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the biofuels industry in Zambia, as a land-abundant country, for the local and wider Southern African market. It …
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acquisitions. We analyse the social and biophysical constraints to biofuel production expansion in Zambia. Previously social … constraints have received limited attention even though they may prove more problematic. Results indicate that Zambia is at least …
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