source of financing by the government and and the one of the ways was to increase the v.a. t. tax from 20 percent to 0 with whom we need to build infrastructure who's going to build railroads you must be more of bridges. or highways that's the job of the government. to electricity. and access to the power grid so what you can do that is with that the government. then with that we did other calculations we wanted to give a boost to certain industries and we will. but if the incomes of the people this is why we had to do that we had to rely on them had to resort to these not very popular measures. but just the overall the government and the central bank have proved right but inflation was for 6 months it means that the central bank had to hike the key policy rate industrial production was a little bit down but we now see that the fax has faded and inflation is down just got the day. before yesterday below 5 percent. industrial output on the rise and think of it as are on the rise. for the time being but when you look at the way we planned it. there actually works. with. mr pearson s

to whom the government says the down to owes that money in taxes and the dentist says does i mean government that money in some of the v.a. t. o. value added tax it has paid on the copper and that is part of the problem but the main problem is the legal proceedings as you mentioned earlier the down one hasn't been involved in liquidation proceedings it was actually started by the minority shareholder which is in government and they are the ones who started the insolvency proceedings that led to the coup de should to liquidation of case yeah and that is the major problem so the downs are really has taken issue with the fact that they are not part of the legal process that could see them lose the mine there are fears now that the government is nationalizing its resources is that justified and why would they do that well is it justified most people would say probably not because like we've said the legal proceedings haven't seen the downs i like but it's a pain in them but in terms of what's going on the zambian government is cash strapped they have public debt of over 70 percent of g.d.p. and that's an issue so a lot of exper