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Zambia’s Experience With HIPC
(2004)The HIPC Initiative was first launched in 1996 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, with the aim of ensuring that no poor country faces a debt burden it cannot manage. The Initiative entails coordinated ... -
Of Whose Benefit is Globalisation? Examining the Relevance of the G20 to Zambia
(2009)The G20, unlike other forms of international cooperations like the United Nations, is an informal forum that promotes discussion between industrialised and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic ... -
Enhancing Tax Revenue Collection in Zambia: Promoting Sustainable Development And Eradicating Poverty
(2015)This policy brief presents evidence on the Zambian tax system. Its core argument is that we need a radical overhaul of the tax system in order to increase domestic revenue to spend on measures to reduce poverty. In Annex ... -
Media Statement on Public Finance Management In Zambia
(2017)The members of civil society are concerned with the current public financial management situation within which we find ourselves as Zambians. The Auditor General’s Report every year reveals how colossal sums of money are ... -
The Proposed Refinancing Strategy of US $750 Million Eurobond Might Lead Zambia Into A Sovereign Debt Crisis
(2019)The planned contraction of a private equity to amortize Zambia’s US$ 750 million Eurobond is a disaster in-waiting. JCTR is apprehensive with regard to use of a private equity to refinance the country’s Eurobond as the ... -
JCTR Demands Action On The 2018 FIC Report
(2019-06-13)In 2013, the Patriotic Government decided to enact the Financial Intelligence Centre Bill which was drafted in 2010 by the previous Government and establish the Financial Intelligence Centre. This was a progressive move ... -
2020 Budget Address By Honourable Dr. Bwalya K.E. Ng’Andu, MP, Minister of Finance, Delivered to the National Assembly on Friday 27th September, 2019
(2019-09-27)The Minister of Finance asked to move that the House do resolve into Committee of Supply on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1st January, 2020 to 31st December, 2020 presented to the National Assembly ... -
Tilting The Scale in Favour of Borrowing And it’s Risks
(2020-01-15)The paper talks about the rise of Zambia’s external debt over the past few years. According to the Ministry of Finance data, Zambia’s domestic debt stock in terms of securities and bonds rose in 2011. Against this back ... -
Audit on Debt Strategies/Key Legal Reforms That Support The Financing For Development Agenda in Zambia
(2021-10)Debt has been a major source of development finance for Zambia since independence in 1964. In the last decade, the country has been on a steep learning curve, moving from largely concessional borrowing to non-concessional ...
