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Investors return to Zambia as economy improves

Zambia's economy is in a much better state than it was just a few years ago.

Copper, the country's main export, was badly hit by the slump in commodity prices and a drought hammered both agricultural production and hydro-electric power schemes.

But now that copper prices have risen and the rains have come, things are looking up. Investors are coming back and interest rates are coming down.

It's all happened in the first term of the current governor of the central bank, Dr Denny Kalyalya, and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Lerato Mbele sat down with him to get a sense of Zambia's economic recovery.

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