The Zambia Poverty and Equity Assessment highlights the need for stronger, inclusive growth to reduce poverty. Mining and energy transition minerals offer key opportunities, but structural barriers ...

Lusaka — World Bank Group report finds that with smart and cost-effective development investments, Zambia can address climate risks and get on a path of inclusive, private sector-led growth, ...

LUSAKA - Sloppy spelling, frequent truancy and zero interest in education. And that's just the teachers. When it comes to education, children in Zambia's most far-flung villages are often sold short, ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.