This week’s Monday Opinion aims to shed light on the challenges faced by Zambia’s energy sector, which is of critical importance to the country’s economy and people. The sector plays…
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Discussions aimed at finding a solution towards a process of restructuring Zambia’s debt have protracted due to the intricate nature of the country’s creditors. The complexity of the creditor composition…
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Zambia’s debt crisis has been widely publicized since it became the first African country to default on its debt payments during the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic worsened the country’s pre-existing…
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In last week’s opinion, we looked at floods and their implications on the livelihoods of communities by contextualising the impacts on local communities, actions devised to ameliorate flood risks as…
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We talk about value chains and the makeup of the economy in this Monday Opinion. We address a few industries and areas that urgently need government attention, as well as…
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In last week’s Monday Opinion, we introduced the discussion leading up to the enactment of the Public Debt Management Act (the “PDMA”) by highlighting some of the weaknesses of its…
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In this week’s Monday opinion, we focus on the Zambia Tax Platform’s (ZTP’s) expectations from the IMF managing director’s visit to Zambia. On 16 June 2022, the International Monetary Fund’s…
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In this week’s Monday Opinion, we focus on understanding the plans that Government has for Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) for the fiscal year 2023. DRM is often discussed in the…
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Even though tobacco has continued to kill approximately 7 million people annually, the tobacco industry still exerts a relentless push to sell close to 6 trillion cigarettes per year. To…
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“The increasing tobacco consumption remains the leading cause of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) in Zambia. Tobacconomics reports that while countries around the world are seeing a decrease in smoking, Zambia is…
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