Sat, 08 Oct 2016 12:19:13 +0000 THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme is long overdue as it will address many economic issues which include putting in place a proper infrastructure programme strategy, says economist Noel Nkhoma. Mr Nkhoma said in an interview that the infrastructure agenda which Government had embarked on needed a new strategy which the IMF programme would put in place once the fund was finalised. “I think that the IMF programme is long overdue, but I also think that we all understand the state of the economy and in the last five years I think the PF government has strongly pushed the infrastructure agenda,” he said. Meanwhile, the Vice-President Ms Inonge Wina toid Parliament yesterday that Government had not yet engaged the IMF on the prospects of an economic bail out, saying that the nation would be kept informed about the development. Mr Nkhoma explained that the infrastructure agenda was supposed […]
