A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … additional benefits to take account of the multidimensionality of poverty. We use the tax-benefit microsimulation model … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which …

-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020. The analysis also considers the behavioural impacts of input subsidies and … social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …, poverty reduction with smaller government net expenditure. The results from these simulations suggest that it is feasible to …

the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … Zambia. We use static microsimulation models and nationally representative household surveys for each country. Our results … show that in Zambia, where the existing social protection benefits have more extensive coverage, the least generous UBI …

poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for … dealing with future food crises. -- food crises ; political economy ; maize grain ; Zambia ; Africa …

; weather variability ; economic growth ; poverty ; Zambia … variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on … of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus …

poverty targeting efforts in Zambia. The rationale is that with the availability of such analysis, it will be possible to make …In this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators … 2010 Census of Population and Housing data has generated information on the poverty status of provinces and districts in …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … detailed perspective on the evolution of rural poverty. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of FOD results to indicator …

implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied to artificial missing data for Tanzania and Zambia, and-using one …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …