Extreme Poverty Fell to 48%. Is Zambia’s Growth Reaching Ordinary Households?
Zambia's extreme poverty rate barely moved between 2024 and 2025 despite faster per capita growth. What is behind the gap, and what tools government is using to close it.
Zambia's extreme poverty rate barely moved between 2024 and 2025 despite faster per capita growth. What is behind the gap, and what tools government is using to close it.
Zambia's unemployment rate fell to 10.3% in 2025. Extreme poverty barely moved. Here is what the headline number leaves out, and what it means for business and policy.