JAMES MULENGA | Lecturer I

JAMES MULENGA

jnmulenga@mu.ac.zm

Career Profile

  • July 2022 – to date: Senior Lecturer/Researcher + Acting Dean - MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY

  • March 2014 – to date: Lecturer/Researcher - MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY

  • September 2012 – Feb 2014: Lecturer + Head of Dept – Economics - ZAMBIA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

  • 2020 – date: Visiting Research Fellow – Trade and Investment/Macroeconomic: ZAMBIA INSTITUTE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

  • January 2012 – September 2012: Economic Cooperation Assistant/Advisor - EMBASSY OF JAPAN

  • January 2006 – December 2010: Senior/Principal Telecommunications Officer – ZAMBIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY LIMITED

  • June 2005 – December 2005: Teacher – Economics (Cambridge A – Levels): SPRINGFIELDS COACHING CENTER

 

CONSULTANCY

1. 2023/24 -Consultancy title: Writing the Country Economic Transformation - Zambia

Client: Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research/African Center for Economic Transformation

Role: Visiting Research Fellow

2. 2022/23 - Consultancy title: Assessment of Zambia’s Trade Performance Since 2014

3. Consultancy title: Assessment of the Business Enabling Environment and Institutional Framework for Investment

Client: Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry – Zambia/World Bank

Role: Principal Investigator

4. 2022 - Consultancy title: Cost benefit and affordability analysis of clean energy alternatives / products for productive and reproductive purposes for POWER Action women beneficiaries

Client: NGOCC – Zambia

Role: Principal Investigator

5. 2022 - Consultancy title: Definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Zambia Study for AGS Programme Implementation

Client: ZIPAR – Zambia/ Accelerated Growth for MSMEs in Zambia

Role: External Consultant 

6. 2021 - Consultancy title: Implications of Brexit on COMESA trade, investment and official development assistance

Client: COMESA/Dr Mulenga C. Mulenga

Role: External Consultant 

7. 2021 - Consultancy title: Baseline Evaluation of Small Livestock ‘Pass-On’ Interventions on the Health and Education Outcomes for VCAs and their Families in North-Western and Copperbelt Provinces

Client: Catholic Medical Mission Board – Zambia

Role: Researcher

8. 2020 - Consultancy title: Gendered impact of COVID-19 on employment among small and medium enterprises in Zambia

Client: Directorate of Research and Post Graduate Studies (Mulungushi University)

Role: Principal Investigator

9. 2021 - Consultancy title: Communicating Science and Public Health Information, Epidemiology and Management of COVID-19 in Zambia: Building on evidence based lessons and practices

Client: Africa Rapid Grant Fund

Role: Researcher

10. 2018 - Consultancy title: A country study on the Implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act in Zambia

Client: Zambia Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR)

Role: Co-Researcher

11. 2016 - Consultancy title: Promoting beekeeping MSME’s in Central Province of Zambia: Making a case for the adoption of business incubation strategy.

Client: Southern African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management

Role: Co-Researcher

 

Education Background

  • 2009 – 2011: OSMANIA UNIVERSITY - M.A. Economics

  • – 2004: THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA - B.A. Economics

  • September to November 2019: Macroeconomic Forecasting using Eviews 10.5: IMF Institute for Capacity Development

  • September 2017 – April 2018: Advanced Trade Policy and Development: National Board of Trade – Sweden

  • January 2018 to April 2018: CGE Modeling – Using GAMS: University of Laval/PEP

  • January 2018 to April 2018: Evaluation of Public Policies/Policy Impact Analysis – Using STATA: University of Laval/ PEP

  • September – October 2018: Economic Analysis of Non-Tariff Measures; UNCTAD

  • January 2016 – February 2017; Trade and Gender-Unfolding the Links; UNCTAD

  • March 2016 – May 2016: Demographic and Health Surveys data analysis and Report Writing – Using STATA: USAID/ICF

  • Jan – Feb 2015: Basics of Health Economics; World Bank Institute

  • 7th – 18th May, 2012: Design, Monitoring and Evaluation; The University of Zambia

  • 13th – 14th Aug. 2010: Marketing Analytics for Research and Development; ICFAI Business School;

Publications

Google Scholar Link

  1. Mulenga, J. 2016. Employment- Creation through Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Zambia - in Zambia At Fifty Years: What Went Right, What Went Wrong And Wither To? A Treatise of the Country’s Socio-Economic and Political Developments since Independence. Edited by Royson M. Mukwena & Fanuel K.M. Sumaili.

  2. Mulenga, J., Bwalya, B. B. and Gebremeskel, Y. 2016. Demographic and socio-economic determinants of women’s health insurance coverage in Zambia, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health Journal, Accept on 13 December, 2016.

  3. Bwalya, B. B. Mapoma, Mapoma, C.C and Mulenga, J. 2017. A rural-urban differential in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among women of child bearing age in Zambian, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health Journal.

  4. Mulenga, J., Bwalya, B. B. and Kunda, K. K. 2017. Inequalities in access to improved water sources and basic sanitation between Rich and Poor Households, International Journal of Development and Sustainability

  5. Hamauswa, S., Mulenga, J., and Banda, R. S. 2017. Promoting beekeeping MSME’s in Central Province of Zambia: Making a case for the adoption of business incubation strategy, African Journal of Agricultural. Research

  6. Gebremeskel, G., Nyambe M, Simuchimba, B and Mulenga, J. 2017. Willingness to Pay (WTP) for Tap Water Connection in Makululu Compound of Kabwe, Zambia, African Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

  7. Mulenga J. 2020. Trade in Agriculture - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  8. Kalenga, W and Mulenga J. 2020. Trade in Services - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  9. Mulenga J. 2020. Trade Defense Instruments - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  10. Mulenga J. and Mulenga CM. 2020. Tariffs in Trade - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  11. Mulenga J. and Simuchimba, B. 2020. Subsidies in Trade - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  12. Mulenga J. 2020. Unilateral Trade Preferences - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  13. Kalenga, W. and Mulenga J. 2020. Trade Data Analysis - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  14. Zurek, K. Siyoto, E and Mulenga J. 2020. Good Regulatory Practice - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  15. Mulenga J. 2020. Trade Negotiations and implementation - in Introduction to Trade Policy and Development Text Book Published by National Board of Trade Sweden.

  16. Mulenga J. et al. 2021. Gendered Impact of Covid-19 on Employment among SMEs in Zambia

  17. Mulenga, J., Mulenga, C.M., Musonda, K.M and Phiri, C. 2021. Examining gender differentials and determinants of private health insurance coverage in Zambia. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 1212 (2021).

  18. Mulenga J and Mulenga CM. 2023. Manufacturing Sector in Zambia, in Oxford Handbook on Zambian Economy, Oxford University Press.

  19. Bwalya, B.B., Kasonde, M.E., Mulenga, J.N. et al. The association between contraceptive use and desired number of children among sexually active men in Zambia. BMC Public Health 23, 1833 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16750-0

  20. Mulenga J. et al. 2023. Impacts of Corona Virus Disease on Employment among Small and Medium Enterprises in Zambia. Mulungushi University Multidisciplinary Journal (MUMJ)