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Understanding the implications of the boom-bust cycle of global copper prices for natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia

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This paper is about understanding the cycle of global copper price booms and busts over Zambia's economic history. We explore how the mining industry has been managed, and wider economic management during boom periods. We find that successive Zambian governments did not use copper revenues to accumulate productive assets, focusing instead on financing consumption subsidies and sustaining inefficient state-owned companies. In recent times, Zambia has accumulated worryingly high levels of sovereign debt with virtually no prospect of official debt relief.

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  • Robert Liebenthal & Caesar Cheelo, 2018. "Understanding the implications of the boom-bust cycle of global copper prices for natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Zambia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-166, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Rafael Aguirre Unceta, 2021. "Mining revenue, fiscal space and social policies: the case of Zambia," Working Papers 191, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

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