Ensuring Economic Prosperity in 2025
By Michelo Maunga 2024 is behind us. The year that saw rolling power outages never before seen in this country, is in the past. 2025 beckons. And with it the hopes of this country rest for a new beginning and respite from the hardships that befell us the year prior. What must we do to ensure that 2025 is indeed an improvement on 2024? Away from the President, his Cabinet, what role must we as citizens play in actualizing this aspiration? Having spent my 2024 peering through newspapers and economic articles, as I do every year, I believe I have a modest understanding of the happenings in our economy. There are, nevertheless, many amongst us who indeed have a better understanding of the Zambian economy. The foregoing, notwithstanding, I believe my opinion is worth some salt. The Zambian economy narrowly avoided recession in 2024. Besides the economic hardships, which have been well articulated by scribes across this country, the preceding year set in motion a humanitarian crisis that...