Editor,
World Food Programme (WFP) country director Pablo Recalde was quoted in The Post newspaper as having observed that there is a lot of poverty in Zambia because of the uneven distribution of wealth between the poor and the rich.

Today, MMD government newspapers are telling us that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Zambia for the way it managed the economy during the global financial crisis which resulted in the country recording positive growth.

This is so confusing, and I am not even sure how the global financial crisis would affect Zambia. With the little knowledge of economics that I learnt in school, Zambia has been in an economic stupor, hence its lying position since the last 30 years and as such it is not possible for Zambia to fall to anywhere.

For argument’s sake, suppose we were to fall, from which height will we drop from and where will we land, if we are already in a lying position?

Someone please explain this growth to me.
Surely it makes no sense to be singing about growth when in actual fact Zambians are becoming much poorer than they were thirty years ago. Worse still, we are talking about growth that will never be translated into neither jobs nor food on people’s tables.

If debt cancellation is what is being referred to as growth, then words fail me.