Business & Economy
Budget 2027 Should Put Jobs and Productive Investment First
Zambia's 2027 Budget should move from allocations to measurable results, with every kwacha tested against investment, output, employment, exports and revenue.
Zambia Economy 2026
Analysis of the Zambian economy in 2026: inflation, the kwacha, copper production, the policy rate, public debt and power supply, written for business.
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Business & Economy
Zambia Economy This Week: A Court Deadline and Seven Days to a New Term
The petition deadline, the countdown to the 1 September swearing-in and the quiet start of the 2027 budget cycle: the diary for 24 to 28 August.
Business & Economy
Zambia Economy This Week: A Re-election, a Court Date and a Market That Barely Moved
The declaration, the seven-day court clock, the calm market and the numbers the second term inherits, in one weekly read.
Banking & Finance
Zambia’s External Debt Dependence Is Shifting to Domestic Capital Formation
Zambia's development finance is turning homeward. After the 2020 default and the end of the IMF programme, Kelvin Chisanga argues the next frontier is mobilising domestic savings for…
Zambia Economy 2026
Zambia’s Turnaround Won the Election. Now It Has to Deliver.
Hakainde Hichilema's second term begins with inflation at its lowest since 2018, the 2020 default cleared and the kwacha among the world's best performers. The job now is…
Entrepreneurship & Startups
From Economic Stabilisation to a Broad-Based Economy: The Role of MSMEs in the Next Five Years
The debt-service train is coming. Zambia's answer must be millions of productive, income-earning small businesses, argues Steven M. Mbangu.
Zambia Economy 2026
Beyond the Ballot, Zambia Turns the Page to Economic Delivery
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.
Election 2026 Economics
Why Zambia Cannot Afford Militias: The Economics of Hichilema’s Warning
Ballots price policies; guns price risk. Why the President's warning against militia politics is also an investment argument.