Renowned Economics Professor Oliver Saasa has warned that Zambia faces a gloomy economic outlook for the remaining six months of 2015.
Professor Saasa said Zambians should brace themselves for harder times as the economy will undergo a slowdown before it starts to stabilise.
He said the country has had some challenges with receipts from copper mining following the fall in the price of copper on the international market.
‘We have had some serious challenges with the fiscal regime particularly with the mining sector although these have been revised, this has caused some turbulence in terms of projected growth including tax receipts that are so important to the growth we expected,’ Professor Saasa said.
He added, ‘This means that much of the activities that we were expecting whether in terms of infrastructural development, weather in terms of government’s abilities to meet its obligations at different levels has to be scaled down in the next six months to a year until alternative sources are found.’
Professor Saasa said there are limited options for Government to remedy the current economic situation.
‘The options available at the moment for Government are fairly limited. Effectively you are talking about a rather turbulent six months,’ Professor Saasa said.
roads are being launched in solwezi,Contractors are just sun bathing along solwezi chingola road.CNP strategy has caught up with us. Only PF will say NO to this messase
Just do the Pf way, borrow some more. The country is incapable of wealth creation
Prof Saasa, u scare me ! Pls don’t remark ominously like that !!
Actually the Prof is being very diplomatic. He has avoided to say PF has messed up big time.
Some help pliz, who does this man work for?
As usual foools in pf will not heed an intellectual advice like this one. All u get are smelly “black mambas” like chama and chimbwili spuing rubbish.
Chama is a useless dog,who should not be allowed to step his filfy feet in Tongaland. He is so proud and yet owns nothing. We dont care whether he apologises on his anti-Tonga remarks or not