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The "other evidence" that corroborates high growth rates in commodity production in Zambia is not
cited by the World Bank. The evidence examined here, problematic as it may be, does not corroborate
the World Bank report.
Rather than booming growth, analysis here suggests a more complicated story of
diversification in the commercial sector, and increased noncommercial maize production centered in
the far northern and eastern areas of Zambia. Problems of data quality render more detailed
conclusions quite tentative. Longitudinal surveys, both retrospective and into the future, would greatly
assist analysis of agrarian structural change in Zambia.