Economy

Summary of Performance

as of December 4, 2024

Arranged in order of latest update

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Prioritise public investments in regional, continental and global trade arrangements and promote PSD through an informed knowledge economyRead MoreRight arrow
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Encourage value chain addition and agro-processingRead MoreRight arrow
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Introduce legislative and financial incentives to reward innovative technological solutionsRead MoreRight arrow
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Enhance mining output monitoring and oversight mechanisms and technologiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen the agro-value chainsRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish a policy and plan to facilitate local ownership and participation in miningRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote MSME development at the community levelRead MoreRight arrow
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Extend the copper value chain, and promote exploration and processing of gemstones and industrial mineralsRead MoreRight arrow
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Diversify the geography of large-scale electricity generation sourcesRead MoreRight arrow
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Accelerate the integration of transmission projects to improve access to regional power marketsRead MoreRight arrow
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Transform Zambia into a regional hub for road, rail and air logisticsRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve economic and fiscal governance through the strengthening of regulationsRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen partnerships with other countries to improve wildlife populationsRead MoreRight arrow
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Develop and rehabilitate communal infrastructureRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure an effective transport policy to allow fair distribution and access in the sector through transparent and impartial practicesRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure fiscal expenditure rationalization, prudence and disciplineRead MoreRight arrow
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Support better management and investment in Science and Technology InstitutionsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure consultative PSD reform process with local partners from both the public and private sectorsRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve data collection of tourism-related statisticsRead MoreRight arrow
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Harmonise the trade policy with the industrial, commercial, immigration and foreign policiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve access to capital for the modernisation of agricultureRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure various arts disciplines are engaged for job creation and support business opportunitiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote appropriate mechanisation of agriculture to enhance growth and productivityRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve the business environment and reduce the cost of doing business for the private sectorRead MoreRight arrow
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Review the laws governing land, and the way land is allocated to Zambians and non-ZambiansRead MoreRight arrow
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Increase funding and personnel for agricultural extension servicesRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote PPPs and FDI in the transportation sectorRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote the establishment of permanent agro dealer networksRead MoreRight arrow
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Provide targeted farm input packages to vulnerable groups of small-scale farmersRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote the digital economy and advance knowledge and skillsRead MoreRight arrow
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Increase budgetary allocations to social protection, including addressing the plight of pensionersRead MoreRight arrow
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Modernise, integrate and commercialise the airports and maximise the return investments from aviationRead MoreRight arrow
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Develop pricing mechanisms that favour Zambians and off-season marketingRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish agro-input manufacturing industries in partnership with the private sector to produce seed, fertilizer, and toolsRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote small and medium scale agro- based and non-agricultural industriesRead MoreRight arrow
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Restructure the fuel supply model to ensure fuel security and remove middle menRead MoreRight arrow
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Implement a Renewable Energy Investment Plan to improve the energy mixRead MoreRight arrow
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Broaden the formal employment base to ensure workers are protected by the law and have access to pension and health systemsRead MoreRight arrow
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Correct the indiscriminate use of land and poor development practices by promoting orderly land managementRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve public information services on meteorological events and market informationRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote tourism diversificationRead MoreRight arrow
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Bring advanced technology to border post managementRead MoreRight arrow
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Undertake a major mining sector policy reform including tax policy and administration reformRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure a disciplined land market and effective, efficient land administration and management systemsRead MoreRight arrow
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Implement programmes to improve youth and women's access to landRead MoreRight arrow
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Enhance agricultural diversification and mitigate natural shocks by growing drought-resistant cropsRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve regulatory frameworks and remove administrative barriers to business entry and operationsRead MoreRight arrow
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Invest in research to develop new technologies relevant to developmentRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen tax policy and administration to broaden the tax baseRead MoreRight arrow
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Create a robust tourism marketing strategyRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure higher prioritisation of public investments in rural transportation networks, systems and infrastructure servicesRead MoreRight arrow
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Partner with the private sector to ease access to and ensure availability of low-cost finance to farmersRead MoreRight arrow
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Create an enabling environment supported by strong regulation for development of the financial sector and a digital economyRead MoreRight arrow
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Provide financing, establish industrial parks and reserve government contracts for MSME manufacturing firmsRead MoreRight arrow
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Apply science and technology to all aspects of governmentRead MoreRight arrow
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Increase youth and women's access to farm inputs and agricultural technologyRead MoreRight arrow
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Streamline tax incentives and maximise in-country capital retentionRead MoreRight arrow
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Enact strong investment banking regulationsRead MoreRight arrow
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Actualize the abundant job, innovation and business opportunities in the arts sectorRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish policies and regulatory frameworks around energy supplies and property rightsRead MoreRight arrow
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Develop national export trade strategies as central to national development and mainstream trade policyRead MoreRight arrow
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Modernise and strengthen capacities of our key revenue administration institutionsRead MoreRight arrow
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Address the proliferation of regulatory and licensing fees that increase compliance costs and corruptionRead MoreRight arrow
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Broaden the tax baseRead MoreRight arrow
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Remove several regressive tax elements that favour high-income taxpayers at the expense of low-income householdsRead MoreRight arrow
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Target revenue mobilisation efforts towards consumption taxes and property taxesRead MoreRight arrow
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Develop revenue mobilisation systems both at sub-national and national government levelRead MoreRight arrow
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Put in place export financing support instruments to support Zambian businessesRead MoreRight arrow
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Undertake awareness campaigns on market access initiatives and quality standardsRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish an independent office of the Auditor of Public ProcurementRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure contracts management is supported by adequate monitoring and trainingRead MoreRight arrow
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Publish on an e-platform the contract awards notices, bid details and selection rationaleRead MoreRight arrow
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Introduce legislation that widens the scope, and lowers the cost of financial servicesRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen the linkages between budget execution and procurementRead MoreRight arrow
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Enforce the legal framework against fraud and corruption, enhance transparency and improve competitionRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish a robust and independent complaints review mechanismRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen public investment management, project selection and financingRead MoreRight arrow
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Create an autonomous national debt management officeRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure transparency and accountability in procurement and reporting of public debtRead MoreRight arrow
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Tighten the oversight role of parliament in debt contractionRead MoreRight arrow
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Streamline the reporting of public debt and ensure full disclosureRead MoreRight arrow
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Enact legislation aimed at improving the corporate governance environment in the countryRead MoreRight arrow
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Introduce targeted policy incentives to attract large capital inflowsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure fiscal discipline and minimise government borrowing in the local marketRead MoreRight arrow
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Amend existing laws relating to illicit financial flowsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure policy linkages with education to build a skilled labour marketRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen the capacity and autonomy of the central bank (Bank of Zambia)Read MoreRight arrow
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Create an enabling macroeconomic environment, strengthen the public agencies that support private sector development and enhance public-private dialogueRead MoreRight arrow
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Consult with all key stakeholders in addressing the various challenges affecting the growth of the manufacturing industryRead MoreRight arrow
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Reformulate and implement a well-balanced MSME development policyRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen academic credentials for the hospitality industryRead MoreRight arrow
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Maintain museums and restore information on cultural and natural heritageRead MoreRight arrow
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Tighten regulations for hunting, processing, sale, import and export of wild animals and trophiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Enhance community involvement and benefit of Game Management Areas (GMAs) through Community Resource BoardsRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish public policies and investment strategies for local ownership and operation of tourism service and enterprisesRead MoreRight arrow
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Open up the northern tourism circuit (Northern, Luapula and Muchinga provinces)Read MoreRight arrow
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Ensure each province has an international airport which attract use by domestic and foreign airlines and transform into a regional tourist and transit hubRead MoreRight arrow
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Create an interdependent relationship for home grown solutions, and generate highly skilled and paying jobsRead MoreRight arrow
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Maintain a stable economic landscape to reduce cost of doing businessRead MoreRight arrow
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Support the development of science and technology industriesRead MoreRight arrow
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Place arts and culture practice under the Ministry of ArtsRead MoreRight arrow
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Include communities and investors when developing agreements with the GovernmentsRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish a National Supplier Development Policy for the mining industryRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote small-scale miningRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish balance payments, co-ordination and coherence between trade-in-services and monetary policiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Enhance coherence between transport policy and trade, commercial and industrial policiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure an effective policy for guaranteeing the full participation of local private transporters in the transport sectorRead MoreRight arrow
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Restructure ZESCO to improve operations, autonomy and efficiencyRead MoreRight arrow
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Extend the grid network and deploy off-grid electrification solutions to rural areasRead MoreRight arrow
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Minimise transmission and distribution losses and enhance electricity network reliabilityRead MoreRight arrow
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De-risk investments in communal infrastructure and scale up investments in off-grid solutionsRead MoreRight arrow
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Organise women and youth into farmer cooperatives and other social solidarity initiativesRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure a cost-reflective and steady tariff when investing in energyRead MoreRight arrow
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Develop suitable credit and finance facilities for youth and womenRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish an agrarian financing bankRead MoreRight arrow
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Prioritise the grading of rural roadsRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote farmer clubs and agricultural cooperativesRead MoreRight arrow
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Delivery of targeted tax incentives for start-ups to cover the first three yearsRead MoreRight arrow
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Pilot community-owned commercial farming enterprises in each districtRead MoreRight arrow
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Revive and strengthen farmer training and research institutesRead MoreRight arrow
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Review and update the extension policy and strategy to serve the different groups of farmersRead MoreRight arrow
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Partner with banks and insurance companies to develop insurance products for farmersRead MoreRight arrow
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Increase the irrigable acreage to ensure sustained food securityRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish a Youth Entrepreneurial Services Development ProgramRead MoreRight arrow
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Establish the Zambia Enterprise Development (ZED) initiativeRead MoreRight arrow
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Formation of MSME Community Savings and Loans Association and an MSME Development FundRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure that roles for government and the private sector are well defined and understoodRead MoreRight arrow
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Provide targeted research-based information about agricultural production, marketing, distribution and regional market access opportunitiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure that there is a built-in mechanism for harmonizing the divergent stakeholders’ needs and interests at political, institutional and technical levelsRead MoreRight arrow
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Commit our political support to the Private Sector Development (PSD) reformsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure access to affordable agricultural inputs by creating a supportive business environment for the private sectorRead MoreRight arrow
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Create a pathway to use more soil friendly organic farming and natural soil enhancement methodsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure future urban development fits with the ethos and image of the town or city, whilst reserving land for recreational facilities and activitiesRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure that all players in the public and private sectors plan and efficiently manage landRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure citizens enjoy similar legal protection to own and transact in the landRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure the equality of citizens to access land wherever they may be in ZambiaRead MoreRight arrow
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Implement an economic diversification programme that prioritizes jobs-rich sectors, such as agroprocessing, tourism, construction and ICTRead MoreRight arrow
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Promote broad-based re-education, up- skilling, retooling, and skills development for formal and informal workers in the public and private sectorsRead MoreRight arrow
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Ensure that there are strong synergies between our job creation strategy and MSMEs strategyRead MoreRight arrow
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Educate, motivate and encourage the youth to become successful entrepreneursRead MoreRight arrow
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Strengthen statistical analysis capacity to improve policy-making and better track progressRead MoreRight arrow
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Increase international reserves to create a buffer to cushion the economy against external shocksRead MoreRight arrow
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Improve budget credibility through better planning and adherence to expenditure plansRead MoreRight arrow

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