{"id":174059,"date":"2024-06-07T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-raising-agricultural-productivity-and-private-sector-investment-can-help-zambia-achieve-sustained-and-inclusive-growth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:57:20","slug":"zambia-raising-agricultural-productivity-and-private-sector-investment-can-help-zambia-achieve-sustained-and-inclusive-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-raising-agricultural-productivity-and-private-sector-investment-can-help-zambia-achieve-sustained-and-inclusive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Raising Agricultural Productivity and Private Sector Investment Can Help Zambia Achieve Sustained and Inclusive Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Lusaka \u2014 While Zambia&#8217;s economy is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and a previous recession, a new Country Economic Monitor (CEM) report shows pathways that can support the country&#8217;s productivity to enhance economic transformation, create better jobs, and deliver sustained and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"103\">The new CEM, launched today, titled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/documents.worldbank.org\/en\/publication\/documents-reports\/documentdetail\/099052324022010016\/P17810311fb0ea0811a4d01148044a14210\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Unlocking Productivity and Economic Transformation for Better Jobs<\/em><\/a>, shows that structural issues persist in the Zambian economy despite remarkable economic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka \u2014 While Zambia&#8217;s economy is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and a previous recession, a new Country Economic Monitor (CEM) report shows pathways that can support the country&#8217;s productivity to enhance economic transformation, create better jobs, and deliver sustained and inclusive growth. The new CEM, launched today, titled Unlocking Productivity and Economic Transformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[12464,258,256,8375,6641,7258,6018,257,5990,8110,18099,5991,254,7262,4709,881],"class_list":["post-174059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-achieve","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-growth","tag-inclusive","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-private","tag-productivity","tag-raising","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sustained","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}