Zambia's Mining Investor Schizophrenia

analysis

Despite the claims of those who said growth in Zambia was the result of better governance, the problem now is precisely that it wasn't. To the contrary, the country is now among the most unequal countries in the world. Today the top 10% of Zambians receive 52% of all income, while the bottom 60% of the 16-million population gets just 12%. By GREG MILLS.

Zambia was a poster child for the Africa rising era in the 2000s, when its economy grew at 7% annually.

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