The 2019 Zambia Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI's Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data.

Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an

What drives tax compliance among informal workers, and how does compliance affect their policy preferences? Informal workers in developing countries encounter multiple taxes levied by government authorities and non-state actors.

These files comprise data and do-files for reproducing results presented in the article "Taxing Informality: Compliance and Policy Preferences in Urban Zambia" (Resnick, 2020).

In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, countries across the world have instituted various policy measures which-although different in their approaches-are all evolving as the pandemic progresses.

Since Amartya Sen’s famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that policy responses to food market shocks should be guided by changes in households’ incomes and access to food, rather than by overall food availability.

Since the early 2000s, decentralization has been espoused as a major policy goal of successive Zambian governments.

Most of the studies that investigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture have concentrated on the effects of changes in mean temperature and precipitation even though the importance of volatility and risk on farmers’ decision making is we

This study analyzes recent household data on Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia to assess the impact of the most recent El Niño in East and Southern Africa and the trade policy responses to it.

What drives tax compliance among informal workers and does it affect demands for political representation?

This study examines when and why some informal workers pay these taxes and, in turn, how tax compliance affects political representation.

What drives policy reform after long periods of policy inertia? What factors shape the effectiveness of policy implementation following reform decisions?

In its 5th year of Phase I, A4NH has validated its core areas of research, taking many to scale while also broadening its Phase II portfolio

Long considered the archetype of economic decline in Africa, Zambia more recently has been heralded as an example of Africa’s economic resurgence.

The volume consists of an overview and seven country studies, written by leading scholars from both developed and developing countries.

This country factsheet presents key agricultural R&D indicators in a highly accessible visual display.