Zambia
Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa
with approximately 10 million people. Per capita income is estimated at
US$400, while debt per capita is estimated at US$624. Life expectancy
is 46 years. Although the country is richly endowed with hydro-electric
potential, arable land, wildlife and minerals, nothing has been done to
diversify the economy, which remains totally dependent on copper mining.
The government, through its implementation of a World Bank/IMF structural-adjustment
program, has managed to attain a tolerable level of stability in some
major macroeconomic indicators. However, this has been attained at a high
social cost and at the expense of stagnation in the economy and consistently
negative figures in real GDP growth per capita. It is estimated that about
80% of the population lives in conditions of acute poverty (families with
income less than a dollar per person per day).
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Source:
ZCTU SAP PROJECT —
Zambia Congress of Trade Unions
Solidarity House
11 Oxford Avenue
Kitwe, Zambia
Tel: +260 2 224765
Fax: +260 2 228284
zctusap@coppernet.zm
Data posted: April 16, 2001.
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