Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) Digital Repository: Recent submissions
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Wastage Of Public Resources Should Never Be Allowed To Continue
(2012-02-01)Fighting poverty and ensuring that every Zambian has access to basic needs such as food, health care, safe shelter, safe and clean water, basic sanitation, education and livelihood can never be achieved without prudence, ... -
2020 National Budget Doesn’T Offer Much Relief To Ordinary Citizens
(2019-10-01)On Friday, 27th September 2019, Finance Minister, Dr. Bwalya Ng’andu presented the 2020 National Budget under the theme “Focusing National Priorities towards Stimulating the Domestic Economy”. As in the Presidential address, ... -
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 ... -
Basic Needs Basket (BNB) For January 2011: Will the Minimum Wage Increase the Purchasing Power for Employees? JCTR Asks as the Lusaka BNB Reaches K3,000,000
(2011-02-05)The minimum wage is one of the most important labour market policies in any economy. It is an instrument that raises much debate due to mainly three things. First, its effects on the welfare of employees, especially those ... -
Survey on Employment Generating Policies in Zambia
(2011-08)The basic fact that low income households possess few assets of their own can hardly be contested. The most abundant resource at the disposal of the poor is their labour. Thus, a development strategy that more fully employs ... -
Cost Benefit Analysis of Employment Created By Zambia Agribusiness
(2013-03)Zambia is endowed with abundant natural resources, but in spite of the nation’s potential the problems of unemployment, underemployment and poverty have not been meaningfully alleviated by substantial investment and a fast ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2019
(2019)January 2020 marks the beginning of the implementation of the new JCTR strategic plan. As JCTR we want to continue to be active in promoting an enculturated faith, values, environmental stewardship, human rights and ... -
Analysis of The Report of The Auditor General on The Accounts of Financial Year Ending 31St December 2017
(2019)The Auditor-General’s Office in Zambia has a constitutional mandate to audit use of all public resources in the Republic to strengthen accountability and transparency with the aim of building public confidence. This is ... -
Corruption in Zambia: Is it Inevitable? Can We Stop it?
(2007-04-19)So what new can possibly be said about this topic of corruption in Zambia? Haven’t we already heard more than enough about the topic? And really, what difference does yet another paper make on the presence of corruption ... -
Debt Resource Monitoring Report
(2010-11)Good road infrastructure is cardinal in the promotion of viable economic activities. This is even more so for the agriculture sector which relies on the road network for transportation of agricultural inputs such as seed ... -
Alternative Ways of Protecting and Promoting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Zambia
(2011-01)Considering Zambia’s history in the area of constitution making, particularly with regard to amendments to the Bill of Rights and the adoption of stronger measures to protect rights, including economic, social and cultural ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2019
(2019)We are blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all the articles presented in this issue of JCTR Bulletin. In this editorial allow me to briefly share with ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2019
(2019)Like in our previous issue of JCTR Bulletin, we are once again blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all seven articles presented in this issue of JCTR ... -
JCTR Bulletin 1st Quarter 2019
(2019)This is the first issue of JCTR Bulletin this year. We are blessed with articles traversing a wide range of issues. We encourage JCTR readers to take time to read all seven articles presented in this issue of JCTR Bulletin. ... -
JCTR Communications Strategy
(2007-09-10)JCTR began in 1988 as a project of the Zambia-Malawi Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). In the work of social justice, the quality of communication and how widely it is done is very critical. This communication ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2011
(2011)We have come to the end of 2011! This has been an eventful as well as a defining year for Africa’s political landscape. The innate yearn for justice by peoples in their respective countries manifested itself in gallant ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2011
(2011)A few weeks ago Zambia witnessed yet another relatively peaceful change of government, the first having been in 1991 when multiparty democracy was introduced. Needless to say, this phenomenon is unprecedented in the African ... -
JCTR Bulletin 2nd Quarter 2011
(2011)Three months ago, the constitution making-process in Zambia came to another halt when the proposed Constitution Bill did not get the two-thirds endorsement it required to pass in Parliament. This was an inauspicious ... -
JCTR Bulletin 4th Quarter 2010
(2010)The fourth quarter in Zambia, since 2009, is occupied with discussions of the National Budget and how Government is going to implement its programmes in the coming year. It is worth noting that before then Budget discussions ... -
JCTR Bulletin 3rd Quarter 2010
(2010)The key event in the third quarter of 2010 at JCTR was the blessing of the new JCTR Offices and the installation of the new JCTR Director, Fr. Leonard Chiti, S.J., on 10 September. After working as JCTR Director for ...
