FINANCIAL Economist Trevor Hambayi says the government should not wait to finalise the debt restructuring programme before it starts to revive the country’s economy. He says the growth of local SME’s is the solution to solving Zambia’s challenges around employment creation and poverty reduction. In an interview, Hambayui noted that economic recovery should be independent of the debt restructuring, therefore there was a need to start seeing economic recovery before the debt restructuring was finalised. “What we have observed is that it’s looking like the government is waiting to be able to finish debt restructuring before they start driving economic recovery. Economic recovery should be independent of the debt restructuring, we should start seeing economic recovery before the debt restructuring...