THE reaching of the third Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) on economic and financial policies that will anchor programme implementation for the next 12 months cannot slip under this column.On Monday this week, Zambians received the good...

FROM the public policy perspective, a policy that lacks implementing strategies remains an academic exercise and is far from being achieved.In this week’s article, I will delve into how the rural connectivity policy initiative by...

THERE is no doubt that sustainable mining is the way to go in achieving the country’s copper production targets.The Government has set an ambitious target of attaining three million tonnes of copper per year by...

THE usual columnist of Policy Analysis James Muyanwa is out for a month. However, the column will continue to run until he returns and in his absence, Kennedy Mupeseni is going to anchor the column...

THE importance of the manufacturing sector in realising economic growth in any country cannot be overemphasised.The manufacturing sector is said to facilitate economic growth rate as well as determine the economic strength of any given...

AS I was witnessing CFAO Motors Zambia, an authorised Toyota distributor, launch Toyota Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) on the Zambian market, I reflected on how far the country has come on this road.In fact, I...

By CHATULA KANGALI and ANDREW MULENGA – ACCORDING to the Zambia Statistics Agency, the agriculture sector accounts for about 20 per cent of Zambia’s Growth Domestic Product (GDP) and employs over half of the workforce...

THE issue of Zambia’s debt restructuring has been dragging for some time now and this forum has been keenly following it since inception, somewhere in 2021.The issue which goes in tandem with the current International...

IT was a sunny Friday afternoon, but almost the entire populace was eager to listen to the 2024 National Budget presentation by Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane.Despite the scorching heat, many were glued...

LAST week, we featured an article in which I justified the need for the agriculture sector to get a big share of the 2024 national budget.That was before Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane,...