WORLD Bank Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria Kwakwa says the reclassification of Zambia as a low income country is temporal. And Dr Kwakwa says at the moment, the reclassification has no implication. Speaking during a special programme on ZNBC, Sunday, Dr Kwakwa expressed optimism that the country would reclaim its lower middle income status due to projected economic growth, gains in the kwacha, among other factors. “So what happened is that every year, we do the calculations. For 2021, which is last year, for which the estimates were done, Zambia’s GNI per capita was a thousand forty so you had fallen just slightly below the threshold so you are very close. It’s not like you are deep...

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