This paper is one of three comparing cash with other forms of transfers, identifying where cash transfers may be preferable, the preconditions for cash transfers to work well and how they may best be targeted and sequenced with other initiatives. This paper focuses on Zambia.
This study explores the impact of the global financial crisis on Zambia through its effects on trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), development assistance and remittances, which are the major transmission mechanisms of the crisis to the country.
Supply and distribution chains are crucial in efforts to harness business for development impact.
The Overseas Development Institute is coordinating a 10 country study examining the effects of the global financial crisis and discussing policy implications. While our previous research has indicated the main transmission belts (trade, private capital flows, remittances, aid), the research finds that different countries are being affected differently.
Based on evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa, this Project Briefing focuses on aspects of service delivery that go beyond the provision of basic services. It explores the ways in which NGOs in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia have, increasingly, recognised the need to address issues of vulnerability and exclusion to achieve lasting changes.
As the number of mobile phone subscribers soars worldwide, this Opinion argues that increasing mobile penetration brings developmental benefits, but effective regulation is required to ensure fair competition and encourage roll-out to underserved areas.
The Opinion outlines three kinds of development benefits resulting from mobile phone technology. First, incremental -- improving what people already do. Second, transformational - offering people something new, such as m-banking. And third, production benefits that result from the creation of new livelihoods.
This Project Briefing examines the key lessons from the Australian Partnerships with African Communities (APAC) programme to address emerging development challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa, using community-based approaches.