Zambia

This publication provides comprehensive and consistent information on African central government debt statistics for the period 2003-2013. Detailed quantitative information on central government debt instruments is provided for 17 countries to meet the requirements of debt managers, other financial policy makers and market analysts. A cross country overview on African debt management policies and country policy notes provides background information on debt issuance as well as on the institutional and regulatory framework governing debt management policy

This chapter presents Zambia’s taxpayer education programme. It first gives an overview of the whole programme and its objectives, followed by a focus on one specific element, the tax chat on the radio. It subsequently looks at the impacts and lessons learnt of the initiative, followed by an outlook on next steps.

Ce chapitre présente le programme d'éducation des contribuables de la Zambie. Il décrit d'abord les objectifs généraux du programme, suivi d’un point sur un élément spécifique, les débats sur les impôts. Il examine par la suite l'impact et les leçons à tirer de l'initiative, suivie par un aperçu des prochaines étapes.

Este capítulo presenta el Programa de Educación Cívico-Tributaria de Zambia. En primer lugar, hace un recorrido por el programa al completo y sus objetivos, y prosigue centrándose en un elemento en concreto: el Canal de Fiscalidad radiofónico. Por último, analiza el impacto y las enseñanzas extraídas a raíz de la iniciativa, y apunta brevemente a los futuros pasos en este ámbito.

This chapter provides a detailed assessment of the current state of data collection and availability, in terms of quality and completeness, at the level of the national education system in Zambia. Zambia has acceptable capacities to produce the statistics requested through the system-level questionnaire. The country has established mechanisms for conducing high-stakes national examinations and national assessments, as well as implementing international student learning assessments. Legislative instruments are in place to guide the education system’s implementation, to regulate its human resources, and to authorise the activities of various data-producing entities. Challenges include tracking data in expenditure in private institutions, the coverage of education statistics in pre-primary education, and the timely publication of examination and assessments results.

This strategic foresight report assesses the interaction between demographics, economic development, climate change and social protection in six countries in East Africa between now and 2065: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The report combines population projections with trends in health, urbanisation, migration and climate change and identifies the implications for economic development and poverty. It concludes by identifying policies to address seven grand challenges for social protection planners in national governments and donor agencies which emerge from the projections. These include: eliminating extreme poverty; extending social insurance in a context of high informality; the rapid growth of the working-age population, in particular the youth; adapting social protection to urban settings; protecting the poor from the effects of climate change; harnessing a demographic dividend; and substantially increasing funding for social protection.

This dataset comprises statistics pertaining to pensions indicators.It includes indicators such as occupational pension funds’asset as a % of GDP, personal pension funds’ asset as a % of GDP, DC pension plans’assets as a % of total assets. Pension fund and plan types are classified according to the OECD classification. Three dimensions cover this classification: pension plan type, definition type and contract type.

This dataset includes pension funds statistics with OECD classifications by type of pension plans and by type of pension funds. All types of plans are included (occupational and personal, mandatory and voluntary). The OECD classification considers both funded and book reserved pension plans that are workplace-based (occupational pension plans) or accessed directly in retail markets (personal pension plans). Both mandatory and voluntary arrangements are included. The data includes plans where benefits are paid by a private sector entity (classified as private pension plans by the OECD) as well as those paid by a funded public sector entity. Data are presented in various measures depending on the variable: millions of national currency, millions of USD, thousands or unit.

This dataset comprises statistics pertaining to pensions indicators.It includes indicators such as occupational pension funds’asset as a % of GDP, personal pension funds’ asset as a % of GDP, DC pension plans’assets as a % of total assets. Pension fund and plan types are classified according to the OECD classification. Three dimensions cover this classification: pension plan type, definition type and contract type.