Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy

As in many countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and around the developing world, poverty in Zambia is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon. In 2010 the moderate poverty rate in rural areas was 74 percent, more than double the urban poverty rate of...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Poverty Assessment
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	DONORS ECONOMIC GROWTH INEQUALITY JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL POVERTY SOCIAL SPENDING URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/18286675/zambia-poverty-assessment-stagnant-poverty-inequality-natural-resource-based-economy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16792

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spelling	okr-10986-167922021-04-23T14:03:31Z Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy World Bank DONORS ECONOMIC GROWTH INEQUALITY JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL POVERTY SOCIAL SPENDING URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT WAGES As in many countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and around the developing world, poverty in Zambia is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon. In 2010 the moderate poverty rate in rural areas was 74 percent, more than double the urban poverty rate of 35 percent. The economic growth continued throughout the decade, reaching an impressive annual average of 5.7 percent, and by 2011 the World Bank recognized Zambia as a middle-income country. Rising incomes have been densely concentrated among a relatively small segment of the urban workforce, while extremely high urban unemployment rates effectively block the rural labor force from participating in the country's more dynamic economic sectors, a phenomenon that is discussed in detail in this analysis. The principal challenge faced by Zambian policymakers and the international donor community will be to extend the returns to growth throughout the country and especially to the rural poor. Marginal improvements in economic and social indicators can be accomplished through targeted interventions in the rural economy, but enduring, structural income growth and the widespread reduction of poverty will only be achievable through broad-based employment creation in the urban industrial and service sectors. This report is organized as follows: chapter one discusses poverty and inequality; chapter two gives poverty profile; chapter three discusses labor market, employment, and wages; and chapter four focuses on poverty and social spending. 2014-02-03T15:59:11Z 2014-02-03T15:59:11Z 2012-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/18286675/zambia-poverty-assessment-stagnant-poverty-inequality-natural-resource-based-economy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16792 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Africa Zambia
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description	As in many countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and around the developing world, poverty in Zambia is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon. In 2010 the moderate poverty rate in rural areas was 74 percent, more than double the urban poverty rate of 35 percent. The economic growth continued throughout the decade, reaching an impressive annual average of 5.7 percent, and by 2011 the World Bank recognized Zambia as a middle-income country. Rising incomes have been densely concentrated among a relatively small segment of the urban workforce, while extremely high urban unemployment rates effectively block the rural labor force from participating in the country's more dynamic economic sectors, a phenomenon that is discussed in detail in this analysis. The principal challenge faced by Zambian policymakers and the international donor community will be to extend the returns to growth throughout the country and especially to the rural poor. Marginal improvements in economic and social indicators can be accomplished through targeted interventions in the rural economy, but enduring, structural income growth and the widespread reduction of poverty will only be achievable through broad-based employment creation in the urban industrial and service sectors. This report is organized as follows: chapter one discusses poverty and inequality; chapter two gives poverty profile; chapter three discusses labor market, employment, and wages; and chapter four focuses on poverty and social spending.
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title	Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy
title_short	Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy
title_full	Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy
title_fullStr	Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy
title_full_unstemmed	Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based Economy
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