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September 2000 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Widening Gap Between Food Baskets and Salaries: What do Political Party Manifestos Have to Offer?
(2000-09-01)The JCTR September food basket for a family of six in Lusaka stands at K272,305. This reflects a slight drop from the July figure of K277,475, mainly attributed to the continued drop in the price of mealie meal during this ... -
September 2001 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Lack of Political Sensitivity to Cost of Living Worries JCTR
(2001-09-30)The current high level of cost of living is exceedingly difficulty to cope with and has led to greater suffering for the majority of the Zambian people, observes the Economic and Social Development Research Project of the ... -
September 2002 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Clarify Position on School Fees, JCTR Urges Government
(2002-04-03)The abolition of school fees could have relieved many households of the current situation of the high cost of living. The JCTR Basic Needs Basket which estimates the cost of living for a family of six in Lusaka stands for ... -
September 2003 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Basic Needs Basket Costing K1,014,500
(2003-09-01)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) compiles the Basic Needs Basket for a family of six in Lusaka every month. This is an effort aimed at giving a picture of the struggle confronting households in meeting ... -
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 ... -
September 2006 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Development Efforts must be Accelerated in Zambia: JCTR Backs Calls for a more Robust Response to Needs of the People
(2006-09-10)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has strongly called for the breaking of the norm of basic needs inadequacy that has persisted in Zambia for so many years. At all levels of the Zambian society, especially ... -
September 2006 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: JCTR Challenges Water Companies to Make Water Avaliable to all, as New Water Tarriffs Greatly Impact the Basic Needs Basket
(2006-09-06)The Social Conditions Research Project of the JCTR conducts monthly research on the cost of basic needs within a number of urban areas across Zambia, including Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe, Luanshya, Kabwe and Livingstone. For ... -
September 2011 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket: Peace and Stability Cardinal to Meeting Basic Needs, Says JCTR
(2011-09-14)The Basic Needs Basket (BNB), a tool that tracks the cost of living for an average family of six in Lusaka and other towns across Zambia, acts as a proxy measure of levels of household vulnerability as it can be used ...