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1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Social Development Papers No.. 49
Content:
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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Africa
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Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
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East Africa
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Zambia
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English
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en
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Undetermined
