ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa says the successful activation of IMF’s successor programme will lead the country to further economic development. Prof Saasa says that the country has already achieved so much under the previous IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme. Recently government said it was confident that the country would clinch the successor programme after the August polls, stating that investors believed in the country’s story of emerging from a debt default situation. In an interview, Monday, asked if he thought the successor programme would catapult Zambia’s economy, Prof Saasa responded in the affirmative. Prof Saasa added the conclusion of discussions with the IMF on the successor programme was good for Zambia in the context of the macroeconomic targets that...