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Economic Partnership Agreements: A Challenge for Trade Justice
(2007)In the last three years, the Debt and Trade Project (now Debt Aid and Trade Programme, DAT) of the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) invested in understanding the trade challenges faced by Zambia and other ... -
Enhancing Tax Revenue Collection in Zambia: Promoting Sustainable Development And Eradicating Poverty
(2015)This policy brief presents evidence on the Zambian tax system. Its core argument is that we need a radical overhaul of the tax system in order to increase domestic revenue to spend on measures to reduce poverty. In Annex ... -
Enhancing Transparency, Accountability & Community Participation in the Implementation of the Constituency Development Fund
(2023-12-07)Following the enhancement of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) budgetary allocation from K1.6 million to K25.7 million in 2022, and subsequently to K28.3 million in 2023, civil society expressed concern at the lack ... -
Ensuring Equity: The Preferential Option for the Poor in the K42 Billion Supplementary Budget No.1 of 2024
(2024-06-24)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) acknowledges the Zambian government's K42 billion supplementary budget to address drought impacts, highlighting allocations for social cash transfers, school feeding ... -
An Evaluation of The Strengths And Weaknesses of Public Debt Management in Zambia And Management Legal Review
(2007-11)Zambia’s external debt has had a number of effects on the Zambian economy. The HIPC debt agreement, coined in 1996 to help countries like Zambia faced with a huge debt problem and a high fiscal deficit resulted in Zambia ... -
Final Report of the Evaluation of the Debt Project (October 1998-December 2001)
(2003-03-04)The CCJP/JCTR debt project was established in 1998 with the purpose of securing an ethical outcome to Zambia’s external debt problem, viewed as a burden on the people by the project holders. The main purpose of the evaluation ... -
Human-Needs Based Debt Sustainability Analysis: A Challenge For Zambia
(2005-06)In this report. Jubilee Zambia presents a proposal of a set of guides on the development of a human- needs based Debt Sustainability Analysis Framework (DSA.). This proposal is formulated with a view to stimulate dialogue ... -
Identifying and Analysing Challenges in Accessibility of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Loans and Grants Among Women and Youths in Rural Communities: A Case of Mansa and Samfya Districts
(2024-04-14)This study, conducted by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) in collaboration with the Zambian Financial Sector Deepening Limited (FSD Zambia), investigates the barriers hindering women and youths in rural ... -
The Impact of Debt Burden on the Well-being and Quality of Life of Citizens
(2024-02-09)Zambia faces a fiscal challenge common to many other underdeveloped nations in Africa: high, unsustainable debt burdens, fiscal mismanagement and undisciplined borrowing, poor resource allocation, government graft and ... -
Implementation of Select Health Projects at Livingstone Central Hospital
(2018)Over the years, the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has monitored the use of public financial resources in an effort to foster accountability by public officers. Some works have included analysing issues ... -
JCTR Demands Action On The 2018 FIC Report
(2019-06-13)In 2013, the Patriotic Government decided to enact the Financial Intelligence Centre Bill which was drafted in 2010 by the previous Government and establish the Financial Intelligence Centre. This was a progressive move ... -
JCTR’s Reflections on the 2020 National Budget
(2020)The JCTR’s Kasama Office has over the years been engaged in advocacy and lobbying of policy makers in order to promote social justice for all people epically the poor. On 4th July, 2019, stakeholders drawn from Health, ... -
Media Statement on Public Finance Management In Zambia
(2017)The members of civil society are concerned with the current public financial management situation within which we find ourselves as Zambians. The Auditor General’s Report every year reveals how colossal sums of money are ... -
National Budget And Citizen Participation
(2019-11-05)A budget is a plan for future income and expenditure that is used as guideline for spending, saving or investing.The budget cycle refers to and includes all the processes, procedures and activities by which government ... -
Of Whose Benefit is Globalisation? Examining the Relevance of the G20 to Zambia
(2009)The G20, unlike other forms of international cooperations like the United Nations, is an informal forum that promotes discussion between industrialised and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic ... -
Press Statement on The Auditor General’s Report on The Accounts of The Republic For The Financial Year Ended 31St December, 2013
(2013)The Report is rather gloomy and bleak in respect of the utility of public resources pointing to prevalence of resource disutility in the public service. There are many questions than answers regarding the operation of the ... -
The Proposed Refinancing Strategy of US $750 Million Eurobond Might Lead Zambia Into A Sovereign Debt Crisis
(2019)The planned contraction of a private equity to amortize Zambia’s US$ 750 million Eurobond is a disaster in-waiting. JCTR is apprehensive with regard to use of a private equity to refinance the country’s Eurobond as the ... -
Report on the Jubilee Zambia Debt Campaign Opinion poll
(2002)The World Bank and the IMF launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative of debt reduction in 1997 in an attempt to address the debt problems of severely indebted low-income countries. As of January 2002, ... -
Resource Mobilization For Sustainable Development: Best Practices
(2011)Every government needs to mobilize financial resources to finance its development programme. The need to mobilize sufficient financial resources is even more urgent for developing countries like Zambia, as they have more ... -
Special Drawing Rights: Not a Sustainable Way of Supporting Zambia's National Budget
(2023-02-28)In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allocated by far the largest allocation to date of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) amounting to SDR 456.5 billion (equivalent to about US$650 billion). The purpose of ...