Zambia

Question 1

Natural asset

Answer 1

Copper

6th highest exporter

Question 2

Followed which model after 1945?

Answer 2

Modernisation

Question 3

Mining towns along copperbelt –>

Answer 3

industrial community 
healthcare
education 
employment 
landscape of modernity 
infrastructure 
global N towns

Question 4

1960s

Answer 4

Symbol of “emerging Africa”

Question 5

1969 - GDP =

Answer 5

highest in Africa and higher than BRICS

Question 6

1974-94 economic decline

Answer 6

per capita fell by 50%

Question 7

Copper was worth …

Answer 7

90% of exports at one point

Question 8

Rostow (1960)

Answer 8

Fell off track at ‘take off’

Running in reverse

Question 9

Deteriorating terms of trade

Answer 9

imports increasing, whilst exports decreasing

fall in copper price

Question 10

IMF and WB

Answer 10

Implemented SAPs

Burden of debt

Question 11

Towns experienced

Answer 11

Decline and counter-urbanisation

Question 12

Fergus (1999)

Answer 12

‘Myth of modernisation’

Not a linear and optimistic trajectory, actually running in reverse

Question 13

What went wrong?

Answer 13

Over-reliance
Debt Burden
AIDs epidemic
unregulated market 
hunger and malnutrition 
Slump in copper price
Can't just build out of poverty 
No protectionism/control/subsidies

Question 14

1970

Answer 14

Copper price fell

accounted for 93% of export prices

Question 15

Clothing factory employment decline

Answer 15

1980s: 25,000
2002: 10,000

Question 16

Chinese engagement in ZCMT

Answer 16

Factory closed –> financial difficulties, competition and market forces, violent discontent of workers
Chinese/Zambian divide
Anger towards Chinese
Social engagement = shallow