Cost of Living: Recent submissions
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April 2006 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: At the Launch of “Pastoral Circle Revised,” JCTR Urges for Stronger Local Level Engagement in Zambia's Development
(2006-04-05)The JCTR says this in light of a book it is launching on 05 April 2006 entitled, The Pastoral CircleRevisited. This book provides important insights into not only understanding social analysis as abroad topic but how we ... -
March 2006 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Calls for Introduction of a Serious Feeding Programme in all Primary Schools
(2006-03-08)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) is calling upon government to seriously and urgently consider providing feeding programmes in all primary schools across the country. The JCTR makes this call in light ... -
February 2006 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Can the Kwacha Appreciation be Appreciated by the People? Asks JCTR
(2006-02-08)At the start of the new year (2006), the JCTR Basic Needs Basket (BNB) for Lusaka recorded the cost of basic food items alone at K506,100. This is a marginal decrease in food costs from K512,100 last month. If costs of ... -
May 2008 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Increasing Food Prices: the JCTR Basic Needs Basket Tells it all
(2008-05-05)The provision of sustained affordable cost of living has historically proved to be a challenge to most African economies. But this challenge will obviously become even more formidable than before given current increases ... -
May 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Calls For More Efforts at Addressing the Challenge of Employment Creation
(2005-05-01)Employment is very central in answering to the various social concerns Zambia currently faces. As such it should be one of the top most priority areas beyond what is currently obtaining in the country, observes the Jesuit ... -
November 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Says Development Interventions Should Bring Changes at a Family Level
(2005-11-02)The JCTR attaches great importance to the statement by President Mwanawasa that there should be responsible parenthood in our nation. It is indeed irresponsible to have children when one cannot look after them in terms of ... -
October 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Fuel Crisis to Affect more the Poor, Says JCTR
(2005-10-06)The JCTR Basic Needs Basket (measuring the cost of living for a family of six in Lusaka, Livingston, Kabwe, Ndola, Luanshya and Kitwe) is a highlight of food and non-food items necessary for a decent and sustainable human ... -
September 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Calls for Serious Efforts at Meeting Millenimum Development Goals in Zambia
(2005-09-05)The JCTR has constantly highlighted this situation through its simple but very useful monthly Basic Needs Basket that has revealed a general inadequacy of household incomes in relation to meeting essential needs. The Basic ... -
August 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR asks: Why Have we not Realised the Value of Education and Health all the Time?
(2005-08-04)The JCTR monthly Basic Needs Basket provides an independent and evidence based view of what is happening in people’s living conditions. “The relationship,” says Muweme, “between the cost of basic needs and people’s incomes ... -
April 2009 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: The Global Economic Crisis Manifests Worsening Social Crisis, Reveals JCTR
(2009-04-09)The JCTR Basic Needs Basket (BNB), a simple but concrete tool that measures the cost of living for a family of six in Lusaka and other towns, reveals that the cost of mealie meal has continued to rise. For the month of ... -
April 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Inadquate Responses and a Complex Interaction of Factors Behind Increases in Poverty: JCTR Calls for Real Action During the Global Week of Action
(2005-04-12)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says that it is very clear that inadequate responses and a complex interaction of both local and international factors has made the fight against poverty increasingly ... -
May 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket:JCTR Calls for Clarity on Maize Grain Situation
(2005-05-04)According to the JCTR Basic Needs Basket, a monthly survey of cost of living for a family of six, the cost of a 25 Kg bag of breakfast mealie meal has moved upwards in Lusaka from an average of K33,300 during the month of ... -
July 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Challenges all Employers to Respect the Dignity of Zambian Workers
(2005-07-03)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) challenges all employers of labour, whether foreign investors, the government, local businessmen or informal employers, to respect the inherent dignity of their employees ... -
March 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Basket Reveals Difficult Times for Households During end and Start of the Year: JCTR Calls for Necessary Steps to Address Situation
(2005-03-04)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has observed that the unrelenting high cost of living many Zambian households experience during the end and beginning of each year should not be taken as a norm but a ... -
February 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: The 2005 National Budget: Continuing with the Status Quo?
(2005-02-10)The JCTR Basic Needs Basket is a measure of the cost of essential food and non-food items for a family of six living in one of six specific urban areas: Luanshya, Ndola, Lusaka, Kitwe, Livingstone and Kabwe. In January ... -
July 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Situation of Pensioners, Fuel Price Increase Worry JCTR
(2004-07-28)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) wishes to express serious concern about the situation of pensioners and increases in the price of petrol and kerosene in the country. Firstly, reports that about 90,000 ... -
December 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR ask's: why Don't Politicians Speak About What is Important in People's Lives?
(2004-12-08)According to the JCTR’s November Basic Needs Basket, the cost of living for a family of six in Lusaka has continued to fluctuate at a very high level. For food alone, the cost is K456,200, and for non-food essentials, the ... -
November 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Yes, Cost of Living Major Problem Among Households and Needs Very Serious Attention”, Says JCTR
(2004-11-04)The JCTR has long identified high cost of living in Zambia as one of the major and consistent problems the country has experienced. “That is why,” says, Muweme Muweme, Coordinator of the Social Conditions Research Project ... -
July 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Basic Needs Basket Reveals that Luanshya is High Cost of Living Area
(2004-07-04)People of Luanshya are experiencing one of the highest cost of living among urban areas in Zambia. This is according to recent Basic Needs Basket information collected from Luanshya by the Jesuit Centre for Theological ... -
May 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Nutrition Should be Central to AIDS Treatment Discussion, Says JCTR
(2004-05-03)At no time has a holistic approach to health delivery been more critical than in our current predicament of HIV/AIDS, says the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR). Particularly important in ensuring effective ...
