TODAY, we feature an edited version of an article authored by two economic experts from the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR). In the latest ZIPAR quarterly publication, SHEBO NALISHEBO and MALINDI MSONI...

THE country has continued recording positive achievements in the banking sector in the past 10 years or more largely due to robust financial education campaigns by both Government and the banks themselves. The proportion of...

BRIEFCASE has noted with concern that Mei Mei Zambia Limited, the firm engaged to manage the new complex in Ndola near Levy Mwanawasa Stadium has named it Dollar Hill instead of the known Dola Hill....

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – CONSORTIUM investors from Tianjin, Northern China have pledged to establish an international procurement centre in Livingstone to facilitate the buying and export of Zambian products to China and possible markets. A...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) has approved three loans amounting to US$94 million to finance various projects in three countries including Zambia. Under the approvals, Zambia’s Cashew Infrastructure Development Project (CIDP)...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – KALUMBILA Minerals Limited (KML) is happy that the women empowerment programme has successfully taken off, with the first-ever intensive tailoring and knitting course for local women in Kalumbila District. Thirty women...

By JACK MWEWA – THE South African government says the country’s veterinary wing has made progress in resolving the ban on meat exports from America before December, 31, 2015. This is in response to American...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – ZANACO will spend 60 per cent of its K1 million corporate social investment on financial literacy programmes before the end of this year. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) manager Caroline Handia said...

By CHATULA KANGALI – SIXTEEN electricity utility companies from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are today expected to meet in Lusaka to deliberate present and future state of the regional electricity industry. The members...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft East Africa Limited aimed at accelerating cross-border trade through access to technology. COMESA...