Analysis: PETER SICHINSAMBWE
LIVING debt-free is a dream many strive for, but the reality is that very few earn enough money to buy life’s important assets such as a home, car or university education with cash savings. (more…)
NANCY MWAPE, Lusaka
DESPITE the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world declining in the past 25 years, from 36 percent to 10 percent, the pace of progress is a concern to the World Bank.
In Zambia, Government is not sitting idle in ensuring that poverty is significantly reduced. Currently, those living in abject poverty are at about 54.4 percent. (more…)
Analysis: ANTHONY MUKWITA
RECENT weeks have seen a rise in the number of economists that we never knew existed. (more…)
HONE SIAME, Lusaka
GOVERNMENT plans to spend K4.4 billion on debt servicing in the next three years through the newly-established Sinking Fund. (more…)
HONE SIAME, Lusaka
VARIOUS stakeholders are happy with the efforts Government is making in dismantling Zambia’s US$9.3 billion external debt. (more…)
HONE SIAME, Lusaka
OVERSEAS Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) says Zambia’s sound debt management strategy will boost private sector investment in the country’s economy. (more…)
Dear editor,
KUDOS to the Minister of Finance for reaffirming the country’s desire to have moderate risk of debt default and emphasising the need to dismantle arrears and by extension lower the non-performing loans from the uncomfortable high of 13 percent to further unlock private sector-led growth. (more…)
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka
THE introduction of a secondary market for debt instruments is necessary to provide saving and investment alternatives, a financial market expert has said. (more…)