{"id":2934,"date":"2014-06-21T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2014-06-21T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:23:52","slug":"zambia-need-help-from-co-operating-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-need-help-from-co-operating-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia need help from co-operating partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary to Treasury Fredson Yamba said there is need for effective dialogue to avoid misconceptions on the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Government has resolved to deal with challenges and progress has been made to this effect, having just concluded deliberations with the International Monetary Fund mission (IMF) two weeks ago, I wish to reassure you that we had constructive discussions and agreements with IMF. We both reaffirmed that our economic outlook remain positive,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMr Yamba was speaking at the 2014 poverty reduction budget support (PRBS) review meeting in Lusaka yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said Government is aware of challenges of sustaining the outcome in the medium and long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zambia\u2019s co-operating partners say prospects for high rates of economic growth in the country remain positive.<br \/>\nEU head of delegation Gilles Hervio who represented co-operating partners said growth rates of 6.7 percent recorded in 2013 and a projected growth of 6.5 percent are impressive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zambia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-mail.co.zm\/index.php\/local-news\/item\/5149-help-us-zambia-tells-co-operating-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary to Treasury Fredson Yamba said there is need for effective dialogue to avoid misconceptions on the state of the economy. \u201cWhile Government has resolved to deal with challenges and progress has been made to this effect, having just concluded deliberations with the International Monetary Fund mission (IMF) two weeks ago, I wish to reassure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,529,1281,1285,1284,1283,1282,987,257,1280,254,4693,4709,881],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eu","tag-fredson-yamba","tag-high-rates-of-economic-growth-in-the-country-remain-positive","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund-mission","tag-lusaka","tag-news","tag-secretary-to-treasury-fredson-yamba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}