This issue of the Zambia Social Science Journal looks at a number of pressing issues focusing on different parts of the Southern African sub-region. In Estimating the Impact of Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises on Zambian Households, Neil McCulloch and Amit Grover combine national household survey data from Zambia in 2006 with detailed, spatially disaggregated price data, to simulate the likely welfare impacts of the price changes arising from the food, fuel, and financial crises between 2006 and 2009. Their findings indicate that, while households overall react negatively to price rises,...

This issue of the Zambia Social Science Journal examines educational and economic issues in Sudan and South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the first article, Bruno Yawe looks at the technical efficiency of Uganda's primary schools over period from 1995 to 2009. The study focuses on immediate education outputs, demonstrating that Uganda's primary schools are technically inefficient. The next article, by Longinus Rutasitara, surveys the feasibility of taxing the informal sector in developing countries, focusing on Tanzania as a case study. As Rutasitara explains, the expansion of the tax base...