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Background: Improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services and increasing coverage for primary health care services is the focus of many developing countries. In this agenda, external funds play a crucial role in health service delivery, including RMNCH services....

The growth of economies has historically been coupled with structural change. However, despite countries seemingly undergoing diverse structural changes, there is a disparity in how this translates to economic growth. Zambia is one among many African countries which has not experienced sustained...

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of defence expenditure on economic growth as measured by real gross domestic product (GDP) in the presence of investment proxied by gross fixed capital investment, unemployment, lending rate, inflation proxied by consumer price index and...

Farmer access to credit is one of the financial solutions for addressing malnutrition, having been extensively researched in several countries with multiple studies concluding that access to credit has the potential to improve a smallholder household’s dietary diversity and ultimately reduce...

Post-industrial prosperity requires industrialization, otherwise the economy becomes unsustainable. This is evident in the budget and current account deficits of developing countries that attempt to import high end consumption commodities without industrial bases to finance them. As such, Zambia...

This paper analyses the factors affecting bilateral trade flows between Zambia and other Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states. Empirically, this looks at whether or not Zambia has become more integrated in the COMESA region. Two analytical approaches were used to...

This study empirically investigated the impact of currency depreciation on economic growth in Zambia using the Johansen cointegration technique in a bivariate specification. The study used annual time-series data over the period 1985-2016. Gross domestic product (GDP) was used as a proxy for...

There has been controversy amongst economists regarding the nature of the relationship between trade openness and economic growth. The standard neoclassical model of exogenous growth postulates that changes in trade openness can only affect the pattern of product specialization but not the long...

The study sought to understand the effect on Zambia’s metal export performance of the geographical patterns of these exports. Particular focus was given to the role of China as an anchor of the destination network in terms of external demand shocks. The dimensions considered were the effect of...

This study set out to determine the relationship between health human capital and economic growth for 30 sub Saharan African countries during the period 1995 and 2014. The study did this in two parts. First, we first estimated a model of health production to ascertain the impact of economic...