Zambia : Using Social Safety Nets to Accelerate Poverty Reduction and Share Prosperity

Despite robust annual growth of 5.7 percent in the recent past, poverty in Zambia remains stubbornly high. The poverty headcount rate is 60 percent (as of 2010), and 39 percent of the population live in extreme poverty, with insufficient consumptio...

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Main Authors: Tesliuc, Cornelia, Smith, W. James, Sunkutu, Musonda Rosemary
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/03/19893339/zambia-using-social-safety-nets-accelerate-poverty-reduction-share-prosperity
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20140