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The effectiveness of monetary policy in Zambia is undermined by foreign exchange (FX) market inefficiencies, including lack of transparency, fragmented monitoring mechanisms, and limited regulatory enforcement. These shortcomings contribute to inflation volatility and weaken the capacity of the...

Performance in English Language has been a source of concern for a long time in Zambian secondary schools. The Examinations Council of Zambia reports from 2014 to 2021 have indicated that many learners perform poorly in English. For this reason, the study endeavoured to investigate the reason...

This study investigates the effectiveness of food safety control systems at Zambia’s border posts, focusing on institutional capacities, infrastructure readiness, and inter-agency coordination. Against the backdrop of increasing regional trade under frameworks such as the AfCFTA, and persistent...

This study aims to investigate Zambia’s manufacturing finance, drawing lessons from Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs), with a view to generate policy prescriptions that may navigate Zambia’s manufacturing finance to its optimal level. The study has four objectives: to determine the NICs on...

In Zambia policies on ME are available in policy documents such as ‘Educating Our future of 1996’, “Focus on learning 1992’ and ‘Education reform of 1977’. Despite the availability of these ME policies, their implementation in primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutions is not...

This study investigates the relationship between macroeconomic indicators and the NonPerforming Loan (NPL) Ratio in Zambia over a two-decade period (2003–2022/23). The research was motivated by the persistent challenge of high NPLs in Zambia’s banking sector, which undermines financial stability,...

Social Protection programmes in Zambia aim to reduce the levels of poverty and improve the lives of the vulnerable in the communities. However, the two most common challenges in the Social Protection sector in Zambia are fragmented data and poor targeting of beneficiaries. This report describes...

English Language is the official language of Zambia which has to be taught in schools for learners to gain communicative competences. It is widely used in government, education and the business world. Because of such importance, it has a higher status quo compared to indigenous languages....

This study was focused on teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in Literature in English curriculum in Zambezi district using a qualitative case study approach. Guided by an interpretivist research paradigm, the study involved 49 participants, including Literature in English teachers, who...

Language mixing is a practice of using two or more languages within a sentence or between sentences in a conversation. Despite language mixing practices being common in our communities, we do not know how primary school teachers use these practices during their class lesson since regional...