Cost of Living: Recent submissions
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The JCTR Basic Needs Basket - A Tool For Action By Households
(2006)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB) is an accurate monthly survey that shows the bare minimum cost of living for a family of six - the basic cost of essential food and non-food items needed by an average sized family to live with ... -
The JCTR Basic Needs Basket - A Tool For Action By Government
(2006)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB) is an accurate monthly survey that shows the bare minimum cost of living for a family of six - the basic cost of essential food and non-food items needed by an average sized family to live with ... -
The JCTR Basic Needs Basket - A Tool For Action By Community Groups
(2006)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB) is an accurate monthly survey that shows the bare minimum cost of living for a family of six - the basic cost of essential food and non-food items needed by an average sized family to live with ... -
The JCTR Basic Needs Basket - A Tool For Action By Employers
(2006)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB) is an accurate monthly survey that shows the bare minimum cost of living for a family of six - the basic cost of essential food and non-food items needed by an average sized family to live with ... -
The JCTR Basic Needs Basket-A Tool For Action By Church Groups
(2006)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB) is an accurate monthly survey that shows the bare minimum cost of living for a family of six - the basic cost of essential food and non-food items needed by an average sized family to live with ... -
Making Markets Work Better For The Poor
(2011)The need to make markets work better for the poor has been a topic of concern, which is dominated by exclusion to poor people’s participation in economic growth. Studies have shown that the market reforms were meant to put ... -
Empower Youth With Jobs to Meet Their Basic Needs, Says JCTR
(2012-03-15)Zambia’s policy framework in response to the challenges of youth development is embedded in a number of polices and strategies. These policies and plans are products of changes in time and context of the situation of the ... -
High Mealie Meal Prices Are Detrimental on Poor Households
(2020-03-19)The raising price of mealie meal among poor households is an increasing concern in Zambia particularly The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR). The price of mealie meal have gone up to K215 while in other places ... -
JCTR Welcomes Revised Minimum Wage
(2018-09-19)The minimum wage and conditions of employment Act Cap 276 of the Laws of Zambia have been revised following issuance of Statutory Instruments No. 69 of 2018 covering domestic workers, Statutory Instrument No.70 of 2018 ... -
Insights of the August Basic Needs Basket (BNB): A discussion
(2020-09-27)This video is an interview with JCTR's Muchimba Siamachoka where she is discussing the Insights of the August Basic Needs Basket (BNB). She is interviewed by Annette Mulenga of JCTR. -
Investing Directly in The Poor: A Demand For Social Protection in Zambia
(2007-02)“There are a lot of problems in our society that need to be addressed by the government but no efforts have been made to address these issues. It is as though there is no government. People who are in power, people who are ... -
An Assessment of The Problems / Obstacles Faced By Informal Cross Border Traders in Zambia: The Case For Chipata And Livingstone Towns
(2002)Informal cross border trade (ICBT) is a phenomenon that has been in existence for some time now. A number of reasons have been cited to explain the emergence of informal cross border trade and. what seems to be common in ... -
Zambia: A Case Study Of Economic Reform And The Impact On The Poor
(1996-01-02)Zambia is a '‘classic case" of a poor African country struggling with the problems of political and economic transitions. In 1991, it moved out of 27 years of one-party/one-man rule by the leader of its independence fight, ... -
Cost of Living of Primary School Teachers: The Case of Lusaka Province
(2000-06)The main findings of the study are that incomes earned by teachers in government school were significantly lower than those earned by their colleagues in private schools. However, incomes for teachers in private schools ... -
Cost Benefit Analysis of Employment Created By Zambian Agribusinesses
(2013-03)Zambia is endowed with abundant natural resources, but in spite of the nation’s potential the problems of unemployment, underemployment and poverty have not been meaningfully alleviated by substantial investment and a fast ... -
Report on School Food Production And Income Generation in Rural Schools in Zambia
(2009)This report summarises the outputs of the data collection and analysis undertaken during the period 19th October – 12 November 2008. This exercise was to inform the school feeding study contracted out by the Jesuit Centre ... -
Basic Needs Basket (BNB) For January 2011: Will the Minimum Wage Increase the Purchasing Power for Employees? JCTR Asks as the Lusaka BNB Reaches K3,000,000
(2011-02-05)The minimum wage is one of the most important labour market policies in any economy. It is an instrument that raises much debate due to mainly three things. First, its effects on the welfare of employees, especially those ... -
Survey on Employment Generating Policies in Zambia
(2011-08)The basic fact that low income households possess few assets of their own can hardly be contested. The most abundant resource at the disposal of the poor is their labour. Thus, a development strategy that more fully employs ... -
Basic Needs Basket (BNB) for February 2019: Lifting of Mealie Meal Export Ban to Impact Negatively on the Poor
(2019-03-18)The JCTR’s February, 2019 Basic Needs Basket (BNB) for a family of five in Lusaka stood at K 5,331 which was K64 less than the January BNB which stood at K 5,395.35. The most significant changes were noted in fish which ...