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This study considers the impact of financial liberalisation policy on savings and investment in Zambia for the period 1964 to 1996. It examines the relationship between positive real domestic interest rates and savings and investment. Real domestic interest rates are a proxy for financial...

Productivity achievement has become an illusory and diminutive economic objective for most struggling Third World countries. For instance, on the performance of the Zambian economy we note that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita has declined from about 500 United States Dollars to about...

Zambia has for a long time experienced declining economic growth despite having inherited very generous reserves at independence in 1964. To reverse this trend she has tried, though inconsistently and often piecemeal to implement liberalization policies aimed at attracting Foreign Direct...

This study on Gender and Death: Cultural and Social attitudes influencing burying of still-born babies among the Kaonde of Zambia, aims to explain why there is gender division in the burying of still-born babies among the Kaonde, and how this gender division is expressed. It also aims to assess...

The main objective of this study was to ascertain a gender perspective among para- suicides in the City of Lusaka. The study makes the observation that suicide has become one of the major social problems globally, where it is estimated that 8 to 14 people per 100,000 commit suicide each year....

As we enter the third decade of the AIDS pandemic, the temptation is great to assume that the epidemic of gender differentials in health seeking behaviour between HIV positive women and men has improved. Most countries have introduced legislative laws and rules protecting people living with HIV...

The objectives of the study were to investigate the perceptions and experiences of corruption among men and women who trade in Lusaka's Central Business District. The other objective was to investigate whether men were more corrupt than women. The study was undertaken between May and August 2007....

The study sought to examine gender imbalances in enrolment and retention in technical and scientific training at Zambia Air Services Training Institute and Lusaka Business and Technical College. An assessment was made of the relative performance of both male and female students and the attitudes...

This study set out to compare the extent of early marriages among the women of Ng'ombe and Roma/Kalundu Townships, which are two residential areas of different socio-economic backgrounds. The primary sources of data were the women themselves through their life histories obtained through...