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 ability of an average Zambian to access the commodity. Speaking when he was featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, Prof Saasa said the country was still in a quagmire because the growth being registered was not sufficient. “Subsidy is not a bad word, many economies in the world, including industrialised countries support subsidies. But the extent to which you can subsidise has to be aligned to your capacity as a government [or] as an economy, your capacity to pay for that. When the economy is...