YEAR OF DEVELOPMENTAL VISION, YEAR 2017IT is argued among political enthusiasts that 2017 marked the beginning of the implementation of President Edgar Lungu’s vision for Zambia having exhausted his predecessor’s vision, the late President Michael Chilufya Sata, as promised when he first came into office in 2015.This in a way has some truth in it or it could merely be coincidence seeing that it is the year that the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) for the period 2017 to 202 was launched in July 2017.Consequently, the presentation and approach in the implementation of the 7DNP faced a complete paradigm shift to the Sixth National Development Plan (6NDP) and the Revised Sixth National Development Plan (R-SNDP) for the period 2013 to 2016.The 7NDP delinks from sectoral-based planning to an integrated multi-sectoral development approach under the theme “Accelerating Development efforts towards the vision 2030 without leaving anyone behind” (7NDP 2017; 1).It is under this vision that the […]
ZAMBIA’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
