ECONOMIST Prof Lubinda Haabazoka says citizens are not feeling the impact of the reduction of inflation to 7.1 percent because it has been high over the past eight years. Commenting on sentiments that goods and services were still high despite inflation reducing to single digits, Tuesday, Prof Haabazoka said it takes time to feel the impact of single-digit inflation. “I think that since the country over the past eight years has had its fair share of high inflation rates, some of them reaching even 20 percent, we probably might feel the high prices because salaries or earnings have not increased at that level. So, for us to start feeling the benefits, we need to have savings grow at a rate...

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