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Zambia  

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  • Zambia is one of the poorest countries in Africa. After becoming independent of the United Kingdom in 1964, Zambia was classified as a middle-income country, but several decades of economic decline and neglect of infrastructure and services have turned it into an extremely poor country. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Zambia]

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