ECONOMIST Lubinda Haabazoka says IMF Resident Representative in Zambia Eric Lautier is correct that there’s too much politics in Zambia’s economic discourse at the moment, but argues that one cannot separate the two. And Dr Haabazoka says he doesn’t think that the government will offload any state assets because they know where Zambians stand when it comes to privatisation. Recently, Lautier refuted claims that the institution was pressuring IDC to offload some of its assets and observed that there was too much politics in economic discourse at the moment. Commenting on Lautier’s remarks in an interview, Friday, Dr Haabazoka urged both the IMF and government to give details of their programme to avoid speculations. “I think that the IMF representative...