Southern Africa remains one of the most unequal regions in Africa. This is despite maintaining real positive growth rates and an impressive trade liberalisation believed to have desirable impact on the standard of living and the redistribution of income within and among trading nations....
Download PDF ↓Credit markets play an important role in facilitating economic growth and development of countries. Zambia’s Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for 2017-2021 identified the agriculture and manufacturing sectors as essential to facilitate the attainment of Zambia’s development agenda by...
Download PDF ↓In recent years, Sexual Reproductive Health has gained a lot of attention following the first discussions on the topic in 1994 at the International Conference for Population and Development. This follows a realisation that a significant number of adolescents engage in sexual activities and most...
Download PDF ↓The primary objective of this research study is to compare the coverage of agricultural information by print media in Zambia. Specifically, the study was aimed to analysing the importance accorded to agricultural information in terms of length, placement and prominence. To achieve this objective,...
Download PDF ↓Staff turnover in the Zambian banking industry has been and still is a menace. For smaller banks especially, it continues to manifest itself even among newly employed graduates. The aim of this research study was to establish the factors associated with staff turnover in the banking industry,...
Using a triangulation mixed methods design, this study looked at how support that women entrepreneurs in the informal sector receive affects their businesses. The objectives that guided the study were: to establish the nature of support that informal women entrepreneurs receive; to examine how...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of the study was to explore factors leading to low turnout of men in reporting cases of female perpetrated gender-based violence. The study used a quantitative approach, which emphasized objective measurements and the statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data collected...
Corporate Governance can be defined as the directing and controlling of corporations. It became popular after the collapse of several large corporations such as Enron and WorldCom. The collapse of corporations caused depositors to lose their savings, investors to lose their investments worth...
Download PDF ↓Names in African societies are not only mere identifiers of entities, but do carry connotative meanings in most cases. Coming from an oral tradition, significant events such as droughts, death, and famine are documented and preserved through naming. The art of naming has become prominent in...
Download PDF ↓The study investigated the influence of women on Gender Responsive Legislation (GRL) as individuals and as a caucus in the Zambian National Assembly from 2010 to 2016. It sought to examine the role of the women’s movements in supporting the work of the women legislators. The study was anchored on...