Zambia Jobs Diagnostic : Analytics
One of the world’s most youthful countries, Zambia’s economy has been booming since the early 2000s on the back of record high copper prices and private sector investment response to the better business environment. But poverty rose from 2010 to 20...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/277791496907975315/Zambia-Jobs-diagnostic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27008 |
| Summary: | One of the world’s most youthful
countries, Zambia’s economy has been booming since the early
2000s on the back of record high copper prices and private
sector investment response to the better business
environment. But poverty rose from 2010 to 2015 and remains
very high in rural areas. Economic transformation is
underway with workers moving to off-farm jobs, but these are
heavily skewed in the capital Lusaka and in the Copperbelt,
are mostly informal, and aside from jobs on the commercial
farms, good waged are inaccessible to large groups of rural
Zambians, especially women and youth. As labor has started
moving out of agriculture into industry and especially into
services, productivity and hours worked have fallen on
average, especially for young people and those with low
levels of education. Better educated people in the upper
income quintiles are gaining most from rapid growth in
Zambia, with the public sector hiring a substantial share of
better educated Zambians and paying them more for a given
level of education. The majority of Zambia’s rising number
of poor people are stuck in low productivity agriculture.
This report identifies the main jobs challenges facing
Zambia and recommends policies and programs that could
reduce poverty and make growth more inclusive by generating
more and better jobs for Zambia. |
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