Browsing Advocacy on Living Conditions by Author "Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection"
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March 2001 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Price Stability, Decrease and Increase Characterise Food Basket
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2001-03-30)According to Muweme Muweme, Coordinator of the Economic and Social Development Research Project, the price of mealie meal, cooking oil, eggs, salt, Vaseline, for example, has shown a very marginal decrease as compared. ... -
March 2002 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Basic Needs Basket Challenges 2002 National Budget
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2002-03-06)The JCTR Basic Needs Basket which estimates cost of living in Lusaka urban for a family of six -- taking into account costs for food such as mealie meal, beans, dry fish, meat, etc., and non-food essentials such as housing, ... -
March 2003 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Government must Resolve Threats of Current Work Stoppages Justly, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2003-03-04)According to the latest JCTR Basic Needs Basket, the overall cost of basic needs hasincreased by K6,150 from K1,029,150 for the month of January to K1,035,300 for the month of February. The cost of non-essential food items ... -
March 2003 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Links Cost of Living Issues with War in IRAQ
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2003-04-07)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says the monthly Basic Needs Basket continues to show that high demands are being placed on families to meet their daily needs of food and other non-food essentials. In ... -
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
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 ... -
March 2011 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Life in High Density Areas is Still a Challenge Despite High Economic Growth, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2011-03-12)So far, evidence has shown that despite having recorded commendable progress on the macroeconomic front, there is very little to show in as far as translating into improved household welfare. This situation is particularly ... -
March 2011 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Women are more Vulnerable to High Cost of Basic Commodities, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2011-03-13)The cost of living as measured by the JCTR’s Basic Needs Basket (BNB) in February 2011 for an average family of six was K2,982,350. This showed a reduction of K36,750 from K3,019,100 in January 2011. The downward adjustment ... -
May 2002 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Encouraged by Government Declaration of National Disaster but Calls for Looking Beyond Current Situation
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2002-05-30)The JCTR Basic Needs Basket --which measures cost of living for a family of six for the month of May now stands at K814,350, slightly declining by K11,150 from the month of April figure of K825,500. This reduction can be ... -
May 2003 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Holistic and Decentralised Approaches Critical to Efficencty and Equity in Health Services, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2003-05-09)The JCTR monthly Basic Needs Basket, a tool for the estimation of the cost of living for a family of six in Lusaka, has once again shown that to survive or indeed to have access to three meals per day for a family of six ... -
May 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Nutrition Should be Central to AIDS Treatment Discussion, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 ... -
May 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Calls For More Efforts at Addressing the Challenge of Employment Creation
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 ... -
May 2005 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket:JCTR Calls for Clarity on Maize Grain Situation
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 ... -
May 2008 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Increasing Food Prices: the JCTR Basic Needs Basket Tells it all
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 2011 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Creating more Jobs in the Manufacturing Sector is more Sustainable, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2011-05-17)It has been well documented that the high and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction experience in East Asia was as a result of investing in labour intensive sectors such as manufacturing. Other labour ... -
May 2012 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Multiple Stakeholder Involvement Essential in Improving Living Conditions, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2012-05-11)According to the latest BNB for the month of April 2012, the cost of living in Lusaka for a family of five stood at a staggering high of K2, 907,540 with the cost of food and essential non-food items at K776, 840 and K2, ... -
May 2020 Basic Needs and Needs Basket Statement: An Uphill Battle for the Poor as Cost of Living Continues to Rise
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2020-06-05)The Basic Needs and Nutrition basket (BNNB) for the month of May 2020 stood at K7, 195.60, an increase of K36.93 from the April 2020 basket. Increases in the basket were noted in the prices of vegetables which moved from ... -
November 2000 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Food Basket Cost Shoots up: JCTR Calls Upon Parliament to Seriously Look at the Rising Cost of Living
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2000-11-01)According to the JCTR's monthly food basket for a family of six in Lusaka, the cost of living has gone up by a huge margin. The survey indicates that for a family of six in Lusaka to survive, without taking into account ... -
November 2001 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: High Cost of Living Should be an Essential Focus for Political Campaigns, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2001-11-30)The JCTR monthly Food Basket that measures cost of living -- for a family of six in Lusaka has highlighted the continued disastrous living conditions in the country. The cost of the Food Basket for the month of November ... -
November 2002 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Basic Needs Basket Report Reveals an all-time High Cost of Living in Lusaka
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (2002-11-05)Indeed, this rise in cost of living is a reflection of the current problems of inflation, exchange rate, scarcities of food, depreciation of the Kwacha, etc., as noted recently by the Bank of Zambia. The disconcerting part ... -
November 2004 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Yes, Cost of Living Major Problem Among Households and Needs Very Serious Attention”, Says JCTR
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (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 ...