Analysis and reporting on Zambia’s business environment, markets, policy and economic outlook.
The debt-service train is coming. Zambia's answer must be millions of productive, income-earning small businesses, argues Steven M. Mbangu.
Fewer than 100 copies remain from a 500-copy print run of the Zambian economist's book on the country's development story, economics and public policy.
Zimbabwe's deadliest transport disaster has claimed 93 lives on Lake Kariba. The Zambian Economist looks at what the tragedy means for the shared reservoir's hydropower output, tourism economy…
President Hichilema's re-election gives Zambia policy continuity. Kelvin Chisanga on why the second term must turn stability into inclusion, starting with the September Budget.
Angola's President João Lourenço has congratulated President Hichilema on his re-election, praising the democratic maturity of Zambians in a context of electoral dispute.
About 20 makeshift trading structures were destroyed at Kamwala Trading Area on 18 August. Police point to a brazier left burning at a makeshift restaurant.
Independent Mwandi MP-elect Iris Kaingu has congratulated President Hichilema on his re-election and pledged to work with him in her role in the new Assembly.
Ballots price policies; guns price risk. Why the President's warning against militia politics is also an investment argument.
