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Multimedia Item - Video
International experience in tax enforcement
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Publication - Project Report
Environmental quality and economic development in Zambia: Filling the data gaps
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Multimedia Item - Video
Keynote speech - Adnan Khan, Research and Policy Director, IGC
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Multimedia Item - Video
International experience in tax policy design and enforcement - Welcome speeches
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Publication - Policy Brief
Evaluation of the rural hardship allowance in Zambia
There is a large disparity in educational outcomes between children in Zambia. The attainment of those living in rural areas tends to be half of those living in urban areas at primary level. It is thought that one cause of this disparity relates to the low motivation of teachers to work in rural areas. The Zambian government has tried to address this by implementing...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Where are the teachers? Staffing inequities across Zambian public schools
This brief analyses the distribution of teachers across public schools in Zambia and looks at the administrative challenges linked to teacher allocation. The researcher finds large staffing inequities across public schools. While 10% of public primary school pupils attend schools with pupil-teacher ratios (PTRs) below 30 pupils per teacher, 16% of pupils –...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Integrating administrative databases to improve resource allocation in the Zambian health sector: An application to the spatial distribution of health workers
The Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) and its partners collect a wide variety of data on health services. However, this information is generally recorded in separate, unlinked datasets that can only be used in isolation from each other. This brief illustrates how the integration of administrative datasets into a single health database can support efficient resource...
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Event
International experience in tax policy design and enforcement
This IGC regional conference, co-hosted with the Zambia Ministry of Finance, was comprised of a number of morning and afternoon sessions focused on international research in tax design and enforcement, presenting a series of research projects completed in the past two years and including panel discussions for researchers and African policymakers to share lessons learned and...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Facility-level access to electricity and the efficiency of maternal and child health services
This project is the first known attempt to directly investigate whether facility level electrification improves the provision of maternal and child health services. Rather than simply correlate electrification with levels of utilisations, we study the relationship between electrification and levels of efficiency in the provision of maternal and child health...
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Publication - Project Report
Understanding growth-income inequality interactions in Zambia