Zambia
Incidences potentielles de la sortie de la catégorie des PMA Cambodge, Comores, Djibouti, Sénégal et Zambie
Lorsqu’un pays sort de la catégorie des pays les moins avancés (PMA) c’est-à-dire lorsqu’il « est reclassé » il cesse de bénéficier des mesures de soutien international réservées aux PMA (dans certains cas ces mesures sont disponibles pendant une certaine période après le reclassement dénommée période de transition sans heurt). La présente note d’orientation présente une vue d’ensemble des effets attendus du retrait des mesures de soutien international spécifiques aux PMA au Cambodge aux Comores à Djibouti au Sénégal et en Zambie. Ces pays ont atteint les seuils de reclassement du Comité des politiques de développement (CPD) pour la première fois en 2021 et conformément aux procédures établies ils seront à nouveau évalués en 2024 date à laquelle leur reclassement pourrait être recommandé.
Potential Impacts of LDC Graduation: Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia
When a country leaves or “graduates from” the least developed countries (LDC) category it ceases to benefit from international support measures that are exclusive to LDCs (in some cases these measures are available for a set period after graduation known as a smooth transition period). This Policy Note provides an overview of the expected impacts of the withdrawal of LDC-specific international support measures in Cambodia Comoros Djibouti Senegal and Zambia. These countries met the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)’s graduation thresholds for the first time in 2021 and according to the established procedures will be assessed again in 2024 when they may be recommended for graduation.
National Productive Capacities Gap Assessment: Zambia
Zambia belongs to the least developed countries' (LDCs) and landlocked developing countries’ (LLDCs) groups. The country has made socioeconomic progress in some areas but still exhibits many of the challenges afflicting LDCs in general. Zambia’s economy remains significantly dependent on the mining and export of copper. This has left the economy vulnerable to fluctuations in the copper price and highly exposed to external shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Zambia’s economy is furthermore characterized by weak productive capacities and lack of structural economic transformation. UNCTAD prepares National Productive Capacities Gap Assessments (NPCGA) to provide support to graduating LDCs following the inclusion of the Productive Capacities Index (PCI) in the graduation monitoring process in view of developing their smooth transition strategies. The NPCGA examines Zambia’s socioeconomic challenges opportunities and prospects. It identifies comparative advantages of the country and key binding constraints to socioeconomic development. It recommends a series of pragmatic and forward-looking policy actions at domestic level together with international support measures (ISMs) aimed at fostering productive capacities and achieving structural economic transformation. The ultimate objective of NPCGA is to enable Zambia to graduate with momentum from the LDC category and to realize its ambition to become a prosperous middle-income nation by 2030.
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review: Zambia
The Science Technology and Innovation Policy Review of Zambia has three fundamental goals. Its first goal is to offer Zambia an assessment of activities and institutions that make up its innovation ecosystem. The second goal is to draw attention to important socio-economic development questions for Zambia. Special attention has been placed on four such questions: gender food mining and digital transformation. The third goal is to provide recommendations for strengthening STI policy and propose measures that may improve national technological capacities and encourage innovation.
Zambia’s trade ambitions abuzz – with honey
There are not a lot of opportunities for income in rural Zambia a sad fact that is especially true for women.
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How Do Cash Transfers Affect Child Work and Schooling? Surprising evidence from Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia
Cash transfers supplement household income but can they also reduce child labour? With generous funding from the United States Department of Labor researchers at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti evaluated the impact of three large-scale government cash transfer programmes to answer this question.
Concluding observations
Zambia is a “Landlocked Land of Opportunity” for services and services exports. Its mining boom has been translating into opportunities for services including direct services exports in the four modes of supply.
Preface
This paper was prepared in the context of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) intensified work in support of least developed countries’ (LDC) participation in trade. It aims to contribute to the discussion on market access for services and services suppliers from LDCs in particular in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Services Waiver Decision adopted on 17 December 2011 (hereinafter “the Waiver”).
Introduction: LDC services exports, the WTO services waiver for LDCs and preferences notified by members
This paper focuses on Zambia as an LDC and a services exporter. It does so embedded in the immediate context of the overall question of LDC services exports their promotion and the operationalisation of the WTO’s LDC Services Waiver. It thus serves as a case study — one of an initial set of four — and should be read in conjunction with the overview paper “Effective Market Access for LDC Services Exports — An Analysis of the WTO Services Waiver for LDCs” which considers cross-cutting observations and conclusions.
Acknowledgments
This pilot case study for Zambia was prepared by the UNCTAD secretariat with co-financing from Sweden for which UNCTAD is thankful.
Sectoral review LDCs services exports and their interests under the waiver
This section explores services of interest related exports or export potentials and obstacles encountered in export markets. It juxtaposes these obstacles with possible solutions that could be imagined to be implemented by importing countries whether under the WTO Services Waiver or otherwise and with the preferences actually notified by the 24 WTO Members that have come forward under the Waiver. This is done here on a selective sometimes anecdotal basis and hence remains illustrative but is nonetheless already rather instructive.
Note
This publication forms part of the background research for the study titled “Effective market access for least developed countries’ services exports; An analysis of the World Trade Organization services waiver for least developed countries” (UNCTAD/DITC/TNCD/2019/1). The research was originally undertaken in 2017 and has been released for publication to help policymakers understand some of the intricacies behind the original study. Some details may have since changed.