January 15, 2023

Zambia 2022-2027 GDP growth forecast

The Forecast In mid-January 2023, the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its GDP growth estimate 1 and forecast for Zambia running from 2022 to 2027. The forecast for Zambia, although not great considering the level of economic activity required to rapidly reduce poverty countrywide, is optimistic compared to the GDP growth rate for the world and the USA. EIU projects Zambia’s GDP will grow in the years 2023 to 2027 by an average of 4.

July 6, 2022

Siavonga: Life on a man-made lake

Siavonga is the largest shoreline town on the Zambian side of Lake Kariba. It’s top four economic mainstays are hydropower from Kariba Dam, wild kapenta fishing, tilapia farming on the lake, and tourism. Tourism is the reason I had come to town in April, 2022. I had come to see for seeing’s sake; and to touch, for the first time, the dam and the lake it holds back. The dam is an enormous hunk of curved concrete.

October 1, 2021

Talking tech in Zambia

On September 7th, 2021 the president of Zambia twitted: But for any country to be part of the progress and technological innovation happening around the world, it must pay attention to developments in high-tech; both the consumer internet software tech such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, WeChat, and the electronics hardware tech producing chips to embed in smart devices: iPhones, Teslas, drones and for 5G roll-out—Zambia is not doing that.