The cost of doing business among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has slightly gone up simply because communication expenses have also gone up. The Government on January 1, 2014, implemented the budgetary imposition of 10...

AS we embark on this weekly column which will focus on marketing, its functions and its impact on other various fields, we are hoping it will be a platform which will benefit many readers. Today’s...

DURING the week, I was discussing with a colleague whether the free-market economic policies that Zambia seems to have been pursuing for quite some time now are in the best interest of the entire nation....

WITH ten years experience in the insurance industry, I have been privileged to see how the game is played. There are many potential fraud areas and scenarios which are very tempting and only people with...

WE enter 2014 with economic pronouncements from the Government on the reintroduction of Industrial Development Corporation (INDECO) which comes as a good package for small and medium enterprises (SMES) in the sense that the sector...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE investments in electricity expansion projects that Zesco Limited has embarked on in the Northern Province are expected to end the perpetual problem of low power voltage, residents have been subjected...

EXACTLY two years ago, the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) increased the minimum capital requirement for both local and foreign commercial banks operating in the country. The BoZ revised the minimum statutory capital requirement from K12...

“INSURANCE fraud is a serious criminal offence. More than 2.1 billion pounds of undetected insurance fraud is committed every year…” reads the Insurance Fraud Register (IFR) website of the United Kingdom (UK). In today’s article,...

As we come to the close of the year 2013, we shall look at the topic that drew a lot of interest among the readers of this column. Value addition to locally obtained raw materials...