This study, for the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry in Zambia, aims to assist Zambia in coming up with a strategy on mode 4 negotiations on trade in services. It will collect information on current labour mobility and examine the costs and benefits of offering and requesting mode 4 access.
The workshop was organised to expose ZANEC partners to the current theory and practice of evidence-based policymaking and aimed to enhance knowledge and skills in advocacy, lobbying and policy entrepreneurship amongst ZANEC member organisations.
The third national seminar of ODI's new Civil Society Partnership Programme's (CSPP) Regional Consultation in Southern Africa was held in Lusaka, Zambia, on the 17th February 2005, in collaboration with the Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia.
A study commissioned by DFID's Africa Policy Department to generate empirical evidence on the design, application and impact of political governance conditionalities in Africa during the period 1999-2004. Political conditionality has been defined to include conditions attached to aid related to democracy, civil liberties, corruption and security/conflict. The focus of this study is on the ten countries that have benefited from DFID Poverty Reduction Budget Support programmes during the period (or part of it): Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
This study is for the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry (MCTI), Zambia in its capacity as LDC Coordinator. It will examine the underlying issues behind the LDC proposals on Special and Differential Treatment at the WTO and suggest possible ways forward.
Based on a short field study in April 2004 of two areas within the Zambezi Valley, the authors report the case of largely dysfunctional food aid programmes. This forms the basis for a discussion of the wider issues it raises
This paper provides a brief synthesis of earlier literature on the fiscal effects of aid, which is related to the wider literature on the development impact of aid and on budget choice. The paper presents the econometric methodology used in the country studies of Malawi, Uganda and Zambia (vector autoregression) and its application, and discusses the problem of reconciling data on aid from donor and recipient sources.
This paper asks what the impact has been on Zambia's fiscal aggregates of the large volumes of external assistance provided to the country, in particular since the mid-1980s, and whether these have prima facie been growth-inducing. It considers the course of fiscal performance, and of its wider economic context, from independence in 1964 to the start of the 21st Century. It applies vector autoregression econometric analysis to data on the main fiscal aggregates.
The report perhaps could be a pioneer in this field offering a first hand insight into the possible/probable outcomes of the Doha Development Round initiated in 2001 by analysing the key positions and trade and development policies in the project countries vis-à-vis the multilateral trade arrangements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
This programme of research and advocacy activities seeks to build better understandings of WSS-poverty linkages into development, implementation and monitoring of PRSP expenditure plans.