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Strategic Approaches to Employment and Job Creation in Zambia : Determining the Role of Entrepreneurship , Trade and Investment ( Conference ID : CFP / 724 / 2018 )
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Objective of the paper – The objective of this paper is meant to determine the most appropriate shortterm and long-term methods or approaches to the creating of employment and jobs in Zambia respectively. Methodology – In order to answer the core of the research problem (unemployment is the main cause of poverty in Zambia); our methodology was the secondary method in which literature review and Key Informant Interviews (interactions with semi-structured interviews) with selected ZDA and departments was used in respect. The hypothesis was “unemployment is the main cause of poverty in Zambia despite other factors” and in consequence we gathered both quantitative and qualitative data for the same vise. With quantitative data, we determined the total number of employed labor force with respect to the country’s total labor force so as to establish the space or gap between the employed and unemployed labor force, and how many people each sector (industry) has employed in order for us to establish which sector or industry plays a major role in employment and job creation. Furthermore, we determined the intensity or height of scale between formal and informal sector employment and the amount of rural versus urban employment. This also involved the determination of the demographic trends in terms of employment such as age, sex, location and the environment. With qualitative approach, we concluded as to why this sector creates more employment and jobs than this other sector and the future predictions of employment by industry or sector. Thus, our data analysis and validation was simple since the collection of data was easy to follow and was able to show a degree of correlation between secondary and primary data, and as a result, both showed a high side by side degree of correlation between unemployment and poverty been the two sides of the same coin. Secondary data sources included literature on social-economic trends in Zambia and those from other countries that share the same social-economic trends like that of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Indonesia and many other central African Countries. These sources included the World Bank, the International Labor Organization (ILO), Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, the central statistics The International Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research ISSN: 3471-7102, ISBN: 978-9982-70-318-5 Page 2 of 16 Paper-ID: CFP/724/2018 www.ijmdr.net ICU-ZAMBIA office (CSO) and Zambia Telecommunications Limited (Zamtel) reports on the social-economic transformation of Zambia since independence in 1964 to date and some future prospects. In our second method we used semi-structured interviews, with selected departments such as the export promotion, investment promotion, SME development and the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) consultants’ departments respectively and many other departments from ministry of labour. Findings – To achieve a higher competitive economic status (high economic growth) and to increase modern employment rates and jobs in Zambia, governance and economic reforms need to be successfully implemented. Governance and economic reforms would provide suitably economic environment, lower production costs and enhance market flexibility and this intern would stimulate/encourage entrepreneurial ventures, investment and growth and consequently increase modern employment rates in our country Zambia. Value of Originality – The understanding of this strategic implementation of government reforms such as “prioritizing entrepreneurship, youth empowerment and diversification” have successfully added to the knowledge base of the existing academic literature and its application in human family. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.multiresearch.net/cms/publications/CFP7242018.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
