development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Among the policy lessons: 1) Nigeria and Zambia failed to unify and stabilize the …

nonsalary cash grants to schools using a unique data set from Zambia. They find that household educational expenditures and …

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 …

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 …

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

reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's exports are also characterized by a high level of churning of firms and … study of the Zambian export sector. The analysis concludes that one of the main policy levers for unleashing Zambia's full … transactions, simplify export and certification requirements, and increase the predictability of Zambia's trade regime could be …

This paper uses Zambia as a case study to assess empirically whether political interference in a low … sector in Zambia has experienced some significant developments since then. The paper uses data on contract from 2008 to 2011 … shielded from political interference. Zambia may be an isolated case but, so far, this model does not seem to have been able to …

With increased global interest in biofuels, Zambia, a Sub-Saharan African country that entirely depends on imports for … availability of surplus agricultural land, Zambia is likely to benefit from the development of a biofuel industry. Biofuels is … expected to reduce Zambia's petroleum import bill, which currently stands at more than US$700 million, enhance food security by …