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September 2024 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket Statement: Addressing the High Cost-of-Living through Inclusive Socio-Economic Policies
(2024-10-02)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has reported a reduction in the Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket (BNNB) for September 2024, which stood at K10,478.04, reflecting a K191.29 decrease from August 2024 in ... -
August 2024 Basic Needs & Nutrition Basket Statement: Ensuring Consumer Protection in the face of Rising Costs of Food Items
(2024-08-29)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) expresses concern over the rising costs of essential food items, which have increased the Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket (BNNB) in Lusaka to K10,669.33 in August 2024, ... -
August 2023 Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket Reports Analysis
(2023-10-06)Lusaka remains the town with the highest cost of living, clinching K9, 267.34 from the K9, 301.18 recorded in July (thus indicative of a meagre K33.84 drop). Second in line was Solwezi at K8, 455.83 rising by K68.24 from ... -
Mapping the Wages with the Cost of Living
(2022-08-25)Based on the BNNB findings, the Centre conducted a study to compare the monthly wages citizens got from January to June, 2021 and the cost of living. The target group included nurses, teachers, marketeers, waiters, security ... -
December 2004 JCTR: Debt, HIPC and the MDGs- can Zambia Scale the Height
(2004-12-30)Zambia is among the most heavily indebted countries in Africa. The decline in copper prices and the increase in oil prices in the early 1970s led to a considerable deterioration in Zambia's terms of trade. The authorities ... -
November 2012 Case Study: Acrive Citizenship Beyond Elections
(2012-11-30)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection is a research, education and advocacy team that promotes study and action on issues linking Christian Faith and social justice in Zambia and Malawi, JCTR began in 1 988 as a ... -
March 2003 Socioeconomic Status, Health Status and Health Equity: A Case Study of Zambian Households in Selected Areas
(2003-03-30)In the 2001 economic report, the government does indicate that even though the delivery of basic health care services has slightly improved, the disease burden has worsened. The incidence rates for malaria, HIV/AIDS, and ... -
February 2007 Case Study: Investing Directly in the Poor: A Demand for Social Protection in Zambia
(2007-03-02)In terms of macro-economic indicators, Zambia appears like a country that is positioned to make a break-through in national development: the economy has achieved positive economic growth for many consecutive years, ... -
August 2007 Monitoring Debt Resources: The Case of Zambia
(2007-08-30)The achievements made so far in the campaign for debt cancellation need to be complemented by prudent management and utilization of debt resources in the post HIPC era. In order to facilitate transparency and accountability ... -
January 1997 Bulletin: SAP: Is it the Solution or the Problem? the Case Study of Zambia
(1997-01-30)When the Bishops of Eastern and Southern Africa issued their "Message" at the close of the 1994 African Synod, they reflected on the serious sociology-economic suffering experienced by so many of their people in various ... -
April 1997 Bulletin: Called to be Evangelisers: Evangelization and Justice
(1997-04-30)This justice is Gods Justice communicated through human works, of justice of' the poor. Throughout-Christian history and especially today, these words of Jesus have been taken as a foundational statement not only for a ... -
January 1997 Bulletin: Ecology, Population and Justice: Our Attitude Towards Ecology: are we Responsible for Damage Caused.
(1997-01-30)Human beings are created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord and by means of doing this to save-their sows. The other things on the face of this earth are created for the human beings, to help them in the pursuit ... -
May 2000 Does Zambia Need the IMF: A Case Study of Zambia
(2000-05-30)"Zambia needs the IMF more than the IMF needs Zambia!" This at least is the opinion of a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Mr. James Mtonga, Secretary of the Treasury, expressed ... -
April 1995 Case Study: Effect of Structural Adjustment Programmes on African Families
(1995-04-30)During 1994, two significant events occurred that focused attention on the family as the center of human society. The first was the commemoration by the United Nations of the "International Year of the Family" (IYF). The ... -
May 1998 Case Study: What to do About Poverty in Zambia?
(1998-05-30)Poverty in Africa is big in the news these days. But will it be big in the policy decisions here in Zambia? The recent regional meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, highlighted the extremely serious depth and dimensions of poverty ... -
August 1992 Case Study: The Social Context of the Amecea Countries on the Eve of the African Synod
(1992-08-30)What seems to me to be very important to focus or) in both the First and the Second Independence is the role of the church. Correct me if I am mistaken, but is it not true to say that the church especially the official ... -
September 1995 Case Study: The Role of the Church in Delivery of Sustainable Health Care: Reflection on Basic Theology and Ethical Principles
(1995-09-30)Health care has long been associated with the mission of the church to evangelize, to bring the Good News to all nations. In Mark's account of the mission of the first disciples after the Resurrection, Jesus promises that ... -
January 2000 Case Study: Grassroots Analysis: The Emphasis on Culture
(2000-01-30)First, there was an intellectual moment Here acknowledge the insight and emphasis of my colleague for many years at the Center of Concern in Washington DC, Joe Holland. Writing in the "Preface" of the revised and enlarged ... -
January 1998 Case Study: A Continent on the Margins
(1998-01-30)Contemporary Africa can be compared to the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho; he fell among robbers who stripped him, beat him and went away, leaving him half-dead (cf. Lk 10:30-37). Africa is a continent where ... -
January 1996 Zambia: A Case Study of Economic Reform and the Impact on the Poor.
(1996-01-30)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-patty/one-man rule by the leader of its independence fight, ...