This accessible case study offers a fully rounded picture of Zambia's course since independence, chronicling the periods of boom and decline after the fall in the price of copper around the mid-1970s. The author advocates an internally oriented economic strategy to retain industries and livelihoods and investigates the ability of the current leadership to achieve this.

This accessible case study offers a fully rounded picture of Zambia's course since independence, chronicling the periods of boom and decline after the fall in the price of copper around the mid-1970s. The author advocates an internally oriented economic strategy to retain industries and livelihoods and investigates the ability of the current leadership to achieve this.