Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) Digital Repository: Recent submissions
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The JCTR Basic Needs Basket - A Tool For Action By Trade Unions
(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 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 ... -
A Just Market System
(2020)A just market is a market system that enables favorable participation from all market players. Buyers and sellers make up the market system. Sellers offer products and buyers offer money, the interaction of these two players ... -
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 ... -
Whose Interests is Zambian Politics Serving?
(2009-11-03)Zambian politics has been interesting in the past three quarters of 2009 for mostly three reasons: (i) Zambian politicians are validating the old adage that “politics is a dirty game,” (ii) Church has been told it has no ... -
JCTR Press Statement on KCM And The Mine’s Contribution to Sustainable Development in Zambia
(2014)It was clear that Zambia is not significantly accessing a fair share of mining revenue for sustainable development from current mining activity in the country. JCTR acknowledged the challenges of revenue mobilisation for ... -
30Ngwee Tax, Tariff or Levy on Internet Calls
(2018)There had be an uproar regarding the government's decision to introduce a levy on internet calls. This has been after the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, who is also the chief government’s spokesperson, ... -
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 ... -
Flash Floods; A Headache for Zambia With No Cure?
(2020)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) sympathises with over 700 families affected by recent flash floods in some parts of the country. The damage caused is however a wakeup call for the nation to build capacity ... -
Developmental Policies and Priorities Have Left the Youth Behind
(2019-03-11)Zambia will join the rest of the world in commemorating the Youth Day on Tuesday, 12th March, 2019. The Zambian youth faces numerous challenges which include, high unemployment, limited opportunity to access and attain ... -
Economic Social and Cultural Rights Key to Human Dignity
(2019-06-28)At 55 years of independence, Zambia claimed to have made a lot of economic advances both in urban and rural areas. However, these advancements were supposed to translate to the improvement of living standards of the people ... -
JCTR Presents to NCC Citizens’ Demand for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) in the New Bill of Rights
(2009-02-04)The previous day, 3 February, the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) presented to the Human Rights Committee of the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) more than 12 thousand (12,481) signatures from ... -
The JCTR is Concerned That The Right to Safe Drinking Water is Under Threat
(2019-01-29)Access to affordable water and acceptable sanitation is critical to the health well-being of Zambians. Many people do not have access to clean water for the basic purposes of health and sanitation. In early January, the ... -
Inclusion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the New Constitution A Must
(2008-05-10)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) calls on the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) to seriously consider the inclusion of Economic, Social, and Cultural rights (ESCR) in a new Bill of Rights of the ... -
Improvement of Social Service Delivery Upholds Human Dignity
(2019-03-19)The Government of the Republic of Zambia, recognises that all human beings are entitled to economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR). JCTR supported by Misean Cara facilitated a project aimed at improving people's awareness ... -
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 ...
