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Poverty Situation in Zambia
Summary: Zambia has a population of 10 million people, and this essay covers the various causes for the tremendously adverse impact on the quality of life for the Zambian people. The majority of the population who are poor need to be urgently lifted from that condition. Poor people too have a right to a long healthy life. It is not acceptable that a large proportion of the population is poor and destined to die even from preventable diseases, while the rich, especially those in government, are flown out for specialist treatment even when terminally sick. Zambia needs urgent practical steps to redress the poverty situation.
From being one of the most prosperous countries in sub Sahara Africa, Zambia has experienced a sharp decline, a crush, of its economy, which has had a great adverse impact on the quality of 10 million people.
The decline started with the rising oil prices of the mid 1970's, which coincided with the drop in world copper prices being the mainstay of Zambian economy. The droughts which were experienced in the early 1980s have persisted into the 1990's and their impact has contributed to the decline in agriculture production. Liberalization and structural adjustment programme (SAP) of the economy denied the faming community access to markets both for agriculture inputs and for sale of produce and this has in many areas reinforced the tendency towards declining production. In addition, SAP has led to increase to unemployment and living hood insecurity, due to the retrenchments in public service and mining.
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