PANGEA-RISK

PANGEA-RISK published a special report on ZAMBIA: NEW PRESIDENT’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN TAKES POLITICAL TURN, which examines how the much-needed anti-graft campaign, a pillar of the reforming president’s policy platform, is increasingly vulnerable to manipulation as economic reforms have stalled. The report analyses the knock-on effects for international investors, for whom business risk in Zambia is increasing. Based on analysis of contract and economic data, impatient and powerful political and business backers of the new government are increasing pressure to secure lucrative economic stakes in the mining and agricultural sectors, including ...