DEAR EDITOR,HE budget under review is evidently a survival plan for a Third World country that landed in the wave of adverse economic bruises occasioned by the novel Coronavirus of 2019.There are more positives as contrasted with negatives on the K119, 616 011 615 Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu presented to Parlia-ment.With all the reservoir of average intellect imbued in them, the Ministry of Finance played a critical role in ensuring that the document was an inclusive one.In fact, a careful study of the document makes a resounding and unequivocal revelation that the budget is private sector and local business driven as it seeks to upgrade the local entrepreneurship into a flock of Zambian emerging multinational corporations.The Agriculture sector is one of the game changers which can turn the fortunes of Zambia and in the long term assume the local rather than the import driven economy. The technical local down was the wake-up call that Zambia […]
SURVIVAL BUDGET FOR 2021
