Gibson Masumbu is a Research Fellow at the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) where he is heading the Human Development Unit. Gibson Holds a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management from the University of Zambia. His research interests lie in the area of human development particularly; poverty analysis, employment and unemployment, rural development and rural finance. His recent research work has been on topics such as youth labour demand constraints, multidimensional poverty analysis, first order dominance analysis of welfare, self-employment, energy poverty and employment projection models.