{"id":174368,"date":"2024-06-12T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-unlocking-productivity-and-economic-transformation-for-better-jobs-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:07:12","slug":"zambia-unlocking-productivity-and-economic-transformation-for-better-jobs-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-unlocking-productivity-and-economic-transformation-for-better-jobs-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Unlocking Productivity and Economic Transformation for Better Jobs in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zambia needs to increase productivity and accelerate economic transformation to achieve sustained and inclusive growth.<\/li>\n<li>Focus should be placed on raising agricultural productivity and private sector investment.<\/li>\n<li>The expected debt resolution and structural reforms are poised to boost private sector investment and support macroeconomic stability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/099052324022010016\/pdf\/P17810311fb0ea0811a4d01148044a14210.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download Zambia Country Economic Memorandum (PDF)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\"><strong>LUSAKA, June 7, 2024<\/strong> &#8212; While Zambia experienced an economic boom in the 2000s, growth&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406110071.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>STORY HIGHLIGHTS Zambia needs to increase productivity and accelerate economic transformation to achieve sustained and inclusive growth. Focus should be placed on raising agricultural productivity and private sector investment. The expected debt resolution and structural reforms are poised to boost private sector investment and support macroeconomic stability. Download Zambia Country Economic Memorandum (PDF) LUSAKA, June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174369,"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":[258,256,3576,6643,257,8110,254,6240,29435,4709,881],"class_list":["post-174368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-productivity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transformation","tag-unlocking","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\/174368","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=174368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}