By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA-PAYMENT technologies are increasingly becoming an important means for Zambian businesses to accept transactions from its consumers through digital platforms amidst the on-going spread of COVID-19 pandemic.This is transforming how retailers operate as...

AS early as April this year, this forum embarked on a series of articles on manifestos of parties participating in this year’s general elections.In continuing looking at the economic issues in this year’s general elections,...

VALUE-driven leadership is the surest way of ensuring global and Zambia’s economy and its underlying corporate business organizational success.Research shows that many of the challenges that corporate businesses and national economies face world-over are caused...

KASUMBALESA is a border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is famously known as a hub for trade for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).This border has a marketplace where a variety...

PERHAPS the most frequently asked question when you encounter crowds in places like Lusaka city market is “what do all these people do and what drives them to be where they are?Driving through the streets...

EVERY business and national economy interconnects and is affected by the individual variables in its surrounding environment: technology, the political environment, and the like.What has the political environment have to do with a nation’s macro...

SIX years ago, we featured an article in which I stated that: ‘So the prices of tomatoes and other vegetables contributed to the reduction in the rate of inflation for Zambia in March 2015!’During that...

By Kennedy Mupeseni – ZAMBIA should use the bumper harvest to position itself for food security and economic recovery amidst the on-going Coronavirus disease.During the 2020/21 farming season, Zambia produced a record 3.6 million tonnes...

By CHATULA KANGALI–PENSION funds, if well invested, can resolve most of the economic and infrastructural funding challenges developing countries like Zambia face.It is encouraging that pension houses in the country are leading the way in...

IN 2019, I was privileged to visit China and upon my return I wrote one of the articles that the biggest thrill I got while visiting was on the progress the government of that vast...