The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has ranked North-Western Province as the highest-performing province in Zambia, underscoring its central role in driving the country’s renewed economic ambitions.
UNDP Resident Representative, Dr. James Wakiaga, said recent investments such as the commissioning of the Kansanshi Mine S3 Expansion Project and the planned Lumwana Super Pit expansion, worth billions of Kwacha, mark a transformative era for the province.
“According to the data that informs the UNDP report, North-Western Province has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.673, making it the highest-performing province in the nation,” Dr. Wakiaga said in remarks delivered on his behalf by UNDP National Economist, Elda Chirwa.
He noted that the S3 expansion would not only boost national copper production but also create jobs, stimulate local businesses, and improve the living standards of people in the province.
The findings were shared during the presentation of the Human Development Report for North-Western Province, which highlights the links between climate change and human development.
What a half cooked story! Ba LT sure don’t you know how to write news? Highest performing in mining? Dancing? Drinking? Smiling?
@ Young journalist, the article clearly states the following:
“North-Western Province has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.673, making it the highest-performing province in the nation”. There is your answer.
Now, if you don’t know what HDI means, go and look it up.
I have a saying: “Ignorance is a misfortune, NOT privilege.
Ba Blackman ukuyumfwa ukucenjela going to town about irrelevant things. If you knew what HDI is, all the more reason why it needs definition evrytime you refer to it. This is because those of us who did economics before the UN came up with HDI, restricted measurements to economic performance.
Don’t forget HDI is seen as an oversimplified measure of complex human development. It therefore is nt a sine qua non for a journalist’s audience.
HDI adds other evaluations which should be explained in the article. In any subject he reports about the journalist’s job is to explain what he is reporting about to non professionals
If a journalist is telling us that Kalusha Bwalya is the best player in Zambia he must follow that up with Kalusha’s achievements and give us those of other competitors. This story throws HDI at the reader and assumes he knows the indexes of other regions. Because journalists dont operate in Ivory towers, the article is Certainly half baked.
Very true @ young journalist. Journalists in Ivory Towers usually write for journals not newspapers. The newspaper caters for the man in the street