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The Zambian government through the fertilizer support programme (FSP) aimed at reducing poverty among small-scale farmers. The programme was introduced in 2002 with an initial 50% subsidy later increased to 60% by 2007 and during 2008-2009 farming season it was at 75%. The study aimed at...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the social, cultural and economic characteristics of the girls that have access to technical secondary schools. An attempt was also made to analyse the girls' access to these schools and their retention, dropout rates, and academic performance. In...

Aid to Zambia and its Impact on Social - Economic Development 1964 - 1983, This research project tries to evaluate the effect of aid on Zambia's social - economic development. The hypothesis is that the quantity, quality and forms of aid has led to increased; gross domestic saving, investment,...

Tourism is beneficial to the country's growth process. It is a source of government revenue,foreign exchange earnings and employment. The study looks at the demand for tourism in Zambia. It looks at the factors that determine the flow of tourists in Zambia. The overall objective of the study is...

This study investigated the participation of women and men in the Community Market Conservation Programme (COMACO) in the Luangwa Valley region. The purpose of the study was to assess the extent to which women and men participated in COMACO. The study was conducted in Mfuwe in Mambwe District in...

The Ministry of Education has shown commitment to ensure that female pupils get the same equal and quality education as their male counterparts in high schools since the 1990s. Unfortunately studies have shown that the performance of girls in these institutions is below that of boys at both...

The past several decades have witnessed considerable empirical research on the demand for money function due to the vital role this function plays in macroeconomic analysis especially in regard to the formation and transmission of monetary policy. Consequently demand for money functions have been...

There is now consensus that inflation hampers economic and social development. It is therefore important to have a clearly defined and effective framework of inflation control. Since 1992, Zambia has been using monetary targeting as a framework of inflation control. However, the link between...

The central theme of this study is to highlight the connection between major African health problems on the one hand and, on the other, the conditions under which African miners and their families worked and lived in the mining industry between 1920 and 1964. With specific reference to the Roan...

Studies on the history of the Transvaal (1886-1910)have traditionally been classified as either imperial, liberal or radical. This categorization of scholars assumed that whatever interpretation of the history of the Transvaal was put forward by one school of thought was significantly different...