ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa says although citizens may wish for subsidies, the Treasury cannot sustain that at the moment. And Prof Saasa says the problem which the country has in terms of mealie meal prices is... […]

THE Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) says it is inevitable that majority financing in the 2024 budget will be raised through domestic resources, arguing that donor countries don’t have the luxury of resources like before.... […]

PARATUS Zambia, the authorised reseller of Starlink in Zambia, says they are overwhelmed with enquiries and are busy onboarding customers at the moment. Responding to a press query, Paratus disclosed that Starlink priority data package... […]

ZAMBIA Must Prosper leader Kelvin Fube Bwalya says has insisted that the UPND government lacks an economic plan and that is why it is haphazardly increasing the prices of essential goods and services to raise... […]

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says his biggest fear is not losing power, but letting Zambians down. And Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) has expressed its continued commitment to collaborating with government in the fight against... […]

THE Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) has urged the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to release maize for sale in compounds so that people can take it to local mills and get cheaper mealie meal.... […]

THE Centre for Trade Policy and Development says while the 2024 national budget has some positive announcements, it does not adequately provide a clear roadmap to addressing the cost of living and other major challenges.... […]

FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says government seriously thought about introducing tax on mobile money transfers as a way of broadening the tax base. And the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA)... […]

THE CSO Debt Alliance says the fact that Zambia has not yet reached an agreement with commercial creditors has the potential to unsettle its planning for 2024. The alliance has also noted that the 2024... […]

THE Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) has disclosed that Switzerland was the largest market for Zambia’s exports in August 2023 accounting for 43.8 percent of export earnings. And the Agency says the country’s major source of... […]