Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200616 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 175
Publisher: 
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), Brasilia
Abstract: 
Zimbabwe is a low-income, land-locked country in Southern Africa with an estimated population of 13,061,239 people, according to the latest census (ZIMSTAT 2012). Two thirds (67 per cent) of Zimbabweans live in rural areas, and 51.9 per cent of the total population are female (ibid.). Between 1996 and 2008, Zimbabwe experienced a systemic crisis with consecutive decreases in gross domestic product (GDP). The crisis generated an extremely high incidence of poverty (people living below the total consumption poverty line) and a deepening of food/extreme poverty (people living below the food poverty line). [...]
Subjects: 
Zimbabwe
social protection
system
harmonized
social
cash transfer
programme
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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