By Maimbolwa MulikelelaTHE just ended edition of the Intra-African Trade Fair demonstrated the continent’s capacity to trade and invest among itself.The Fair attracted 11,828 attendees from across Africa with US$36 billion worth of trade and...

LAST week, I was privileged to attend a media workshop on promotion of statistical literacy on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and data usage.This was followed by another one on data users’ needs on SDGs.Both...

CONFLICT of interest is certainly one of the major vices hampering the development of Zambia’s regulatory institutions including financial and capital markets.As alluded to in last week’s article, credible evidence has emerged in the recent...

By Kennedy Mupeseni – A WELL organised manganese mining sub-sector has the capacity to turnaround the country’s economic fortunes.Although the country’s manganese mineralisation data which points to what extent mineral rich Luapula Province for example...

AS the drive to curb competition in this dynamic environment continues, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)are increasingly becoming more resilient to keep up with the pace as pressure mounts.Today’s article reminds us how diverse...

CONFLICT of interest is increasingly becoming a topical issue in modern day global business and one of the ‘silent killers’ of financial markets and their underlying national economies.This issue too, poses one of the greatest...

TODAY, we want to delve slightly deeper the allocation towards the economic affairs in the 2022 National Budget.On the overall, as indicated last week, Finance and National Planning Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane proposes to spend nearly...

THE bitter-sweet taste Zambia was left with after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank experience in late 1990s and early 2000s seems to be haunting the southern African country.The issues of Heavily Indebted...

THERE’s never been a time in Zambia’s history like now, when there’s arisen the need for professionals to exhibit traits of ‘a value-driven professional’ in both the private and public sectors of the economy.Last week’s...

ON April 14 this year, we looked at economic provisions of the United Party for National Development (UPND) manifesto for the just-ended general elections.This is a blueprint on which the party was elected on August...