{"id":193869,"date":"2025-03-18T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-dissatisfied-with-their-economy-and-the-countrys-overall-direction\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:15:28","slug":"zambians-dissatisfied-with-their-economy-and-the-countrys-overall-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-dissatisfied-with-their-economy-and-the-countrys-overall-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Dissatisfied With Their Economy and the Country&#8217;s Overall Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The increasing cost of living tops the list of the most important problems that Zambians want their government to address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two-thirds (66%) of Zambians say the country is heading in the wrong direction, a 20- percentage-point increase from 2022.<\/li>\n<li>The increasing cost of living tops the list of the most important problems that Zambians want the government to address.<\/li>\n<li>Economic considerations dominate the reasons that Zambians consider emigrating from their country.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly three-quarters&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing cost of living tops the list of the most important problems that Zambians want their government to address. Key findings Two-thirds (66%) of Zambians say the country is heading in the wrong direction, a 20- percentage-point increase from 2022. The increasing cost of living tops the list of the most important problems that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7216,15052,16961,5762,257,254,881,9005],"class_list":["post-193869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-countrys","tag-direction","tag-dissatisfied","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}