A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure
This paper reviews the findings from a poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of three reforms in Zambia: land, fertilizer subsidies, and rural roads. It explains how the PSIA approach was applied to these reforms, and makes suggestions about po...
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okr-10986-361762021-08-24T05:10:33Z A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure Jorgensen, Steen Lau Loudjeva, Zlatina LAND REFORM DISTRIBUTION AND ACCESS LEGAL FRAMEWORK INEQUITY RURAL ROADS POVERTY REDUCTION FERTILIZER This paper reviews the findings from a poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of three reforms in Zambia: land, fertilizer subsidies, and rural roads. It explains how the PSIA approach was applied to these reforms, and makes suggestions about policy design. This PSIA was done as part of the Bank's Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for Zambia, in an attempt to tighten the pro-poor focus of the Bank's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for the country. Data gathered for this paper was through a literature review, surveys, and interviews with stakeholders, and informants. It draws on a participatory poverty research (PPR) done in ten communities, an update of a 25-year longitudinal anthropological study of a village in the Eastern province, and a Fertilizer Roadmap study. The analysis further references an updated rural-household model fashioned for Zambia. The study was based on the premise that: 1) reform is a process, not an edict, nor a document; 2) implementation is as important as policy design in a reform's impact; 3) unintended consequences are not always unknowable; and, 4) where uncertainty exists, analysis of problems actually occurring, is most important to consider. The PSIA looks for the constraints to poverty reduction and for ways to remove them. Zambia's poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) builds on reducing poverty by increasing agricultural productivity, and, given the importance of agriculture to Zambia's people, most of whom live in poverty, the PSIA attempts to inform on the following two key questions: a) What is the smallholder agriculture's potential for reducing poverty? And, b) Are agricultural reforms the best use of Zambia's scarce capacity and resources? 2021-08-23T13:53:49Z 2021-08-23T13:53:49Z 2005-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/515991468336545333/A-poverty-and-social-impact-analysis-of-three-reforms-in-Zambia-land-fertilizer-and-infrastructure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36176 English en Social Development Papers;No.. 49 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Social Analysis Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) East Africa Zambia |
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This paper reviews the findings from a
poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of three reforms
in Zambia: land, fertilizer subsidies, and rural roads. It
explains how the PSIA approach was applied to these reforms,
and makes suggestions about policy design. This PSIA was
done as part of the Bank's Country Economic Memorandum
(CEM) for Zambia, in an attempt to tighten the pro-poor
focus of the Bank's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS)
for the country. Data gathered for this paper was through a
literature review, surveys, and interviews with
stakeholders, and informants. It draws on a participatory
poverty research (PPR) done in ten communities, an update of
a 25-year longitudinal anthropological study of a village in
the Eastern province, and a Fertilizer Roadmap study. The
analysis further references an updated rural-household model
fashioned for Zambia. The study was based on the premise
that: 1) reform is a process, not an edict, nor a document;
2) implementation is as important as policy design in a
reform's impact; 3) unintended consequences are not
always unknowable; and, 4) where uncertainty exists,
analysis of problems actually occurring, is most important
to consider. The PSIA looks for the constraints to poverty
reduction and for ways to remove them. Zambia's poverty
reduction strategy paper (PRSP) builds on reducing poverty
by increasing agricultural productivity, and, given the
importance of agriculture to Zambia's people, most of
whom live in poverty, the PSIA attempts to inform on the
following two key questions: a) What is the smallholder
agriculture's potential for reducing poverty? And, b)
Are agricultural reforms the best use of Zambia's
scarce capacity and resources? |
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Jorgensen, Steen Lau Loudjeva, Zlatina |
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Jorgensen, Steen Lau Loudjeva, Zlatina |
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Jorgensen, Steen Lau |
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A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure |
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A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure |
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A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure |
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A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure |
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A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia : Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure |
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poverty and social impact analysis of three reforms in zambia : land, fertilizer, and infrastructure |
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