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

Tesliuc, Cornelia ; Smith, W. James ; Sunkutu, Musonda Rosemary

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES;    ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS;    AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES;    AGRICULTURAL GROWTH;    AGRICULTURAL INPUTS;   

RP-ID  :  89708

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Despite robust annual growth of 5.7percent in the recent past, poverty in Zambia remainsstubbornly high. The poverty headcount rate is 60 percent(as of 2010), and 39 percent of the population live inextreme poverty, with insufficient consumption to meet theirdaily minimum food requirements. Chronic malnutritionremains very high, with 47 percent of children under the ageof 5 being stunted in 2010, close to the high levels of theearly 1990s. The report recommends a unified National SafetyNet Program comprising cash transfers and public works toreach the poorest 20 percent of the population. Theestimated cost is about US$100 million per year. This isless than 2 percent of public spending and around 15 percentof the current subsidies programs benefiting the non-poor.