Country Overview
Formally Northern Rhodesia, Zambia is a landlocked country which straddles the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north; Tanzania to the northeast; Malawi to the east; Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south; and Angola to the west (Muzeya 2015). The surface area of Zambia is 752,618 km2. It is the 38th largest country in the world with a population of 16 million people (World Population Prospects: The 2015Revision. New York: United Nations). Zambia is a unitary state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to assign. The official language of Zambia is English although there are numerous vernacular languages. The GDP of Zambia is 65.174 billion, and a per capita is $3898 (World Bank 2013, World Development Indicators). The United Nations ranks Zambia in the group of least developed countries, while the World Bank...
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Chiwenga, L., Heffron, R.J. (2018). Zambia: Energy Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_178-1
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