The quarterly JCTR Policy Brief is designed to inform decision-makers and the general Zambian public about key issues that require urgent and effective response to meet the needs of integral, sustainable and socially just development.

[Third & Fourth Quarter 2007]

Economic Partnership Agreements: A challenge for trade justice

[Second Quarter 2007]

What is necessary in a new Constitution to meet the
Development needs of Zambians? It provides input on what should be in the new Bill of Rights of this new Constitution. JCTR argues that what is needed for sure is a new Bill of Rights that effectively incorporates Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR).

[First Quarter 2007]

Investing directly in the poor: A demand for Social Protection in Zambia. It presents the moral and economic case for the formulation and scaling up of awide array of "social protection" intiatives in Zambia.

[ Third Quarter 2006]

Employee Vulnerability in Zambia: a policy guide to casualiastion, minimum wage and the dignity of work. PDF- (An update of the JCTR 4th Quater Policy Brief 2005).

[Second Quarter 2006]

How Free is Free Education? The cost of Education in Lusaka. PDF- It presents the results of a study in Lusaka about the cost, accessibility and quality of Education in Zambia. It to a large extent serves as an independent evaluation of the implementation of free Education in Zambia.

[First Quarter 2006]

Zambia after the HIPC 'Surgery" and the Completion Point. PDF- Is the picture on debt relief for Zambia really rosy? A critical analysis of the current debt relief measures reveals that debt cancellation is not automatic, even for the existing 18 post-Completion Point countries that would be required to go through some final and one-time checks.

 

Policy Briefs 

Promotion of Social Justice and Concern for the Poor.

[Fourth Quarter 2005]

Vulnerability and the employee: How to restore dignity to employment in Zambia ? PDF- Widespread poverty in Zambia has bred a dangerous environment where workers are willing to tolerate severe abuse... The unjust treatment of employees in Zambia is widespread in its prevalence and diverse in its appearance. 

[Third Quarter 2005]

Zambia's Constitutional Review: What sort of principles and issues? PDF-  This Policy Brief is the formal submission made to the CRC with explanations for our comments and recommendations clearly based upon the set of values that we have earlier made explicit.  

[First Quarter 2005]

Zambia’s unaffordable cost of basic needs: Policy responses to remedy this systemic evil PDF- It goes without thorough and deep reflection that Zambia’s longstanding problem of the unaffordable cost of basic needs should be one of the top most policy debates in 2005.

[Third & Fourth Quarter 2004]
Zambia's Economic, Social & Cultural rights & the Constitution PDF

[First & Second Quarter 2004]
Zambia's experience with HIPC PDF June 2004

[First & Second Quarter 2003]
Zambia's poverty eradication: Why and what set of principles? PDF

[Second Quarter 2002]
Zambia’s Economic Diversification

[Quarter 2002]
Current Development Challenges PDF