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Under increased population pressures, extensive methods of arable cultivation give way to intensive ones. The whole agricultural policy area then becomes central in influencing and further determining production trends and, consequently, the farming system that evolves. In most developing...

In the recent years, the problem of child sexual abuse has accelerated at an alarming rate in Zambia and the world over. Meanwhile, disabled children have been reported by the American National Resource Centre on sexual abuse (2002) as being additionally vulnerable to sexual abuse than their non...

Since independence in 1964, there has been an urgent need for economic development in Zambia, which led to the establishment of the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) as a source of long-term finance for development.This thesis examines the role of DBZ in the development of the country,particularly...

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 was carried out at the Middle Zambezi basin in Lusaka province to determine freshwater snail diversity, its relationship to the presence of schistosomiasis and the impact of prevailing environmental factors on snail diversity. The study was carried out during the cool-dry season...

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...